Word: immed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Carmine, Marietta was in labor for six days. During that time, Avellinans camped anxiously and uproariously in the De Sapio apartment. Says Marietta: "When my Carmine came, God bless 'im, it was like I had a king born. Altogether, the people stayed in the house nine days-maybe 30 of them. I was very sick, but I had no time to think about it. We ate and sang and had a big party all the time. Carmine was a king...
...cuts down on the church's membership, cautions against discussing the race problem or labor-management relations because they are too controversial. But he does have his unorthodox moments: "I have long held the opinion-privately, of course-that the Sermon on the Mount is the most im practical nonsense I have ever read...
...exact account is impossible. Says Biographer Maurois: "Dumas was a hero out of Dumas. As strong as Porthos, as adroit as d'Artagnan, as generous as Edmond Dantès, this superb giant strode across the 19th century breaking down doors with his shoulder . . . It is as im possible not to like him as it is not to read him . . . No one has read all of Dumas -this would be as implausible as writing it was. But most of mankind has read part...
...poets, artists, scientists . . . But youth today has abandoned solitude in favor of pack-running, of predatory assembly, of great collectivities that bury, if they do not destroy, individuality. Into these mindless associations the young flock like cattle. The fee they pay for initiation is abandonment of self and im mersion in the herd . . . This innovation can yield no social gain. For it is in solitude that the works of hand, heart and mind are always conceived. In the crowd, herd or gang, it is a mass mind that operates-a mind without subtlety, without compassion, uncivilized...
...concessions as pay for unworked Sundays, improved housing, free medical care, severance pay and paid vacations. None of these provisions are yet in force in Honduras, although United Fruit workers are the highest paid in the country. The difference gave Guatemalan Reds fuel for propaganda denouncing United Fruit and "im-perialismo Yanqui." The result was the current strike...