Word: ignazio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Some well-known intellectuals held conspicuously aloof. Existentialists Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir ("We are not that anti-Communist") turned down bids to speak. But plenty of other certified intellectuals accepted, e.g., Britain's Stephen Spender, France's André Malraux, Italy's Ignazio Silone...
...poor peasants of his village but succeeds only in bringing misery to them and death to himself. A striking improvement over Berto's first novel, The Sky Is Red (TIME, Oct. 25, 1948), The Brigand shines with the kind of love for the Italian peasant that characterizes Ignazio Silone's novels._It is a tone of love which almost never finds its way into U.S. writing...
Elected to honorary membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters: India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Novelists Andre Gide and Ignazio (Bread and Wine) Silone, Historian Arnold Toynbee...
...instant, Pier Superintendent Ignazio Scibilia yelled an ail-ashore order to his crews, unloading copper from the Srbija. Some 150 husky dockers, used to emergencies, poured from the ship and other parts of the dock. Six loading tractors were swung around with noses pressed against the Srbija's side. Hawsers were slackened, 150 men and six machines pushed, the 10,000-ton ship was forced away from the pier. With just enough space to admit them, three men snaked down into the crevice, hanging on to steel stringers, 18 feet to black water...
...That Failed, by Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, Richard Wright, Andre Gide, Louis Fischer and Stephen Spender. Six disillusioned men tell why they got into and out of Communism (TIME...