Word: italian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Konitsa had been relieved (see FOREIGN NEWS). In Athens, people embraced and wished each other "Hronia Polla, adelphi mou" ("Many years, O brother of mine") -but many wryly replied, "How many years?" In Italy, New Year's Day ushered in the new constitution and, officially, the new Italian Republic. The flag-raising ceremony at the Quirinal Palace left Italians cautiously optimistic. In a fashionable church in the Corso d'ltalia a pale-faced friar exclaimed: "No miracle is impossible to God. It is not impossible for God to lift the angry clouds that hang so heavily...
...efforts obvious; similarly no one in the picture "acts." The realism of "Shoeshine" is as great as that of "Open City" and it even surpasses the latter film by a simplicity of theme that nowhere permits the continuity to become naveled as did the narrative of the Italian underground. De Sica has limited himself to a small canvas in painting the destruction of the two young lives but has produced a masterpiece with deeper meaning. When Pasquale brings about his young friend's death, he does not receive punishment before the picture closes; he merely reacts as an individual upon...
...film such as To Live in Peace, the most recent Italian Import, is cloquent proof that straightforwardness and simple realism are far better dramatic ingredients than the usual artificiality and mock heroics that accompany war movies. Even the story is simple: it concerns a little mountain town almost untouched by the war which rages around it. Untouched, at least, until two escaped American prisoners looking for shelter, which is given them by a local farmer. Their hiding and subsequent discovery provide ample opportunity for both comedy and tragedy, as well as for straight drama...
Trade-In. The Italian government followed up its monetary reform at home (TIME, Dec. 8) with a move to re-establish its credit abroad: it offered to exchange defaulted Italian bonds, par value $67,936,100, for a new 30-year issue with interest payable in dollars (1% until 1950, 3% from 1952 on). SEC lifted the wartime ban on trading in Italian bonds...
...Live in Peace. A pastoral tragicomedy about an Italian peasant plowed under by history (TIME...