Word: ils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simple pizzeria called La Carbonara, frequented chiefly by taxi drivers. Characteristically, he has broken with the darkling tradition of Communist revolutionaries, and does not play chess. Instead, he likes to bowl and play scopone (an Italian card game). His party comrades like him. They sincerely call him Il Migliore-The Best...
...Recently, in the Italian Assembly, one of his Christian Democrat opponents ended a bombastic speech with an appeal to the Blessed Virgin; the next speaker windily invoked the Holy Ghost. Communist Togliatti did not reply with dialectical materialism; instead, his steady voice crackled out the First Commandment-"lo sono il Signore Dio tuo. . . ." His fellow legislators cheered...
...Il Migliore. After this test, Togliatti rose rapidly in the international hierarchy. Between foreign assignments he lived and wrote in Moscow. Said one of his friends: "He is one of the few Western Communists who can truthfully boast of Stalin's personal trust and friendship...
Italians could not understand a grown man making such a fuss about being baptized; said one Rome theatergoer: "We get that taken care of the first week we're alive." Wrote Rome's independent Il Momento: "This is a prime example of American qualunquismo. . . .* It is naturally acclaimed by a people who like to see on their stage only a depiction of their own small lives." Wrote another: "Who knows but what [Premier] De Gasperi may have got mixed up in the theater and staged this? Like him, it praises all the simple virtues...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Schubert's Symphony No. 7 in C Major; Rossini's overture to Il Signor Bruschino. Conductor: Arturo Toscanini...