Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italian government officials, Danilo Dolci's methods for helping the poor of Sicily have always been embarrassingly direct. Sicilians were hungry, so Social Worker Dolci became a hunger striker. When they were sick, he converted a three-room apartment into a clinic. To give jobs to jobless fishermen and farm hands, Dolci set them to work on one of the island's tattered roads in the hope that the government would pay them later; he was arrested and convicted of "invading government ground" (TIME, April 9, 1956). Most recently, in his crusade for decent housing, 33-year...
...color mastery all his own. Homage to Soldiers (see cut) owes a debt to Miro; his Four Bathers carries echoes of Picasso and Braque. But Pirandello's interest in the human form (he first studied to be a sculptor) keeps them well on this side of abstraction. Says Italian Critic Lionello Venturi: "He is the most human painter in postwar Italy...
Always the Memory. Painter Afro, 45, now showing 19 of his latest works at Manhattan's Viviano Gallery, is the best of Italy's new postwar generation. Winner of the Grand Prize for Italian painting at Venice's 1956 Biennale, he is about to spend six months at California's Mills College, where his main assignment will be a 10-ft.-by-20-ft. mural for Paris' new UNESCO headquarters...
...Cream-Cone Pagoda. Hoping that their city may become an Italian Lourdes, the people of Syracuse are busy preparing a new home for their Madonna. Twelve acres of land near Sicily's greatest Greek theater (a major tourist magnet) have been set aside for a shrine, to be called Il Tempio delle Lacrime (The Temple of Tears). After an international competition among more than 200 architects from 17 countries (including the U.S.'s Frank Lloyd Wright and France's Le Corbusier), a prize of $13,000 went to a pair of French architects for designing a latticed...
...North American will ship reactors to West Germany, where Demag will assemble and sell them. Westinghouse will license Germany's Siemens, No. 2 electrical manufacturer in Europe, to build and sell reactors similar to one now generating power at Shippingport, Pa. Westinghouse has signed same deal with Belgian, Italian firms...