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...Giorgio Napolitano should be re-invited to America, and the State Department should grant him a visa without delay...
...Italian Communist official invited to lecture at Harvard and other American universities is a flagrant violation of academic freedom. The department's invocation of a Joe McCarthy era law forbidding foreign communists entry into the United States unless they are granted an ineligibility waiver, as justification for not giving Giorgio Napolitano a visa, is an example of the purest form of bureaucratic nonsense. Congess should certainly repeal the law in question, since denying communists entry into this country on the grounds that they represent a danger to the national interest does nothing to insure national security. But, more importantly...
Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government, sent off an invitation letter, co-signed by three non-Harvard Italy experts, to Giorgio Napolitano, the cultural head of the Italian Communist Party, and all was set for a two-week visit. Or so it seemed...
...Italian prints span styles from the ex-Futurist Carlo Carra's surprisingly static "The Acrobats," to the Surrealis precursor Giorgio de Chirico, who by 1921 had also reverted to a more academic style. De Chirico had switched from his earlier eerie, suspended space and stifled-emotion realism to a less exciting neoclassicism...
Hoping for the breakthrough that might eventually put them in power, some Communist Party leaders, meanwhile, are quietly pressing the idea of power-sharing on their own. "Even today the Italian Parliament just doesn't work unless there is prior agreement between us and the Christian Democrats," says Giorgio Amendola, the Communists' No. 2 man. "The Christian Democrats would like to leave it that way, and we would be willing too-if it worked. But it doesn't. So what there could be is some more visible form of cooperation, such as regular consultations. We want...