Word: italian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italian worker, even the unlettered peasant, replies [to Communist cries] by thinking of his son held as a war prisoner in Russia . . . and he automatically thinks the spaghetti he eats is due to the Americans...
...Extraordinary & Infamous." The Kremlin feels that it must change the minds of Italian (and other) workers even if that means taking away the spaghetti. Moscow's Pravda made that point clear when it devoted two pages to an explanation of the Little Comintern by Andrei Zhdanov...
...British poet, who is currently teaching at Sarah Lawrence College, will share tonight's panel with Karl Vietor, Kuno Francke Professor of Germanic Art and Culture, and Renato Poggioli, Associate professor of Comparative Literature, who is American editor of the Italian quarterly, "Inventario." The Dunster House Forum will sponsor the discussion...
...constant stream of visitors makes the editorial office pleasantly chaotic. On Saturdays the staff, and any friends who happen by, adjourn to an Italian restaurant for a long lunch. Says Marion Strobel: "Then we all dangle our feet in Lake Michigan and otherwise behave like poets...
Although the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures garners the imposing total of 120 concentrators, the number of undergraduates outside the Department who enter the basic literature offerings--French 6, Spanish 4, Portuguese 2, or Italian 4--has consistently remained negligible. The chief function of the Department must rest of course with satisfying the demands of the specialists. But especially at an hour pervaded by the spirit of the General Education proposals a man should not find this field closed to him simply because he lacks the language requirement...