Word: italian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...struggle between Communism and the West for the political allegiance of the Italian people, the U.S. last week made an important tactical move: it crossed Italy's war debt (about $1 billion) off the books. Italy's frozen accounts in the U.S. will be thawed, her merchant ships returned. Italians were grateful for the agreement, negotiated by able Ivan Matteo Lombardo, an industrialist who became Secretary-General of the Socialist Party. But with the skepticism of a long-suffering nation, many wondered what the U.S. would ask in return...
Nearly half a million enemy soldiers- 378,898 Germans, 51,455 Italians, 5,435 Japanese-were imprisoned in the U.S. during World War II. Last week the War Department reported that every man jack of them had now been sent home, except for 24 German and Italian escapees still at large and 15 others who are in disciplinary barracks...
...faculty and student council, he started raising money (from students, educators, friends) to found a special summer seminar at Salzburg, Austria-for Europeans only. From U.S. colleges and universities he picked a dozen top educators to teach. He chose erudite Francis Otto Matthiessen (American Renaissance) to teach U.S. literature, Italian-born Historian Gaetano Salvemini to teach U.S. history, Anthropologist Margaret Mead for sociology, and James Johnson Sweeney, onetime director of painting and sculpture at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...surface, Forster's tales trip the fantastic lightly, full of comic improbabilities which unite past & present, heaven & earth. They abound with pompous Englishmen on Italian holidays, Anglican curates who sport with pagan fauns, young ladies with good breeding and bad taste. But beneath their staid respectability lurks the irreverent demon of Pan, Greek god of nature...
...anticlimax. It is not the finding of beauty, but the seeking of it, that counts. The man who attempts to isolate his paradise in Other Kingdom loses the one thing that makes it worth having. In The Eternal Moment, a woman novelist captures the primitive beauty of an Italian village; but her book unwittingly turns the village into a tourist center, and destroys it. Says Christ, in one of the stories: "There is no abiding home for strength and beauty among men. The flower fades, the seas dry up in the sun, the sun and all the stars fade...