Word: levis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christ Stopped at Eboli (see BOOKS), Italian Author Carlo Levi tells movingly of an Italian village too tiny and remote (according to local tradition) even for the attention of the Messiah. In the messianic fervor of Italy's Communists today, however, no village is too remote. North & south where no road leads and no Christian Democrat cares to venture, the Communists are on hand to persuade, threaten or cajole with promises of worldly salvation. Last week, from Rome, TIME Correspondent Emmet Hughes cabled a revealing glimpse of the way humbler party officials work their wonders in two little towns...
CHRIST STOPPED AT EBOLI (268 pp.)-Carlo Levi, franslated by Frances Frenaye-Farrar, Straus...
...Rome, where housing is just as scarce as in New York, London, Paris,* Moscow, Cape Town or Shanghai, one Carlo Levi, an Italian writer, painter and sculptor, was in a universal predicament. His landlord wanted to throw him out of his studio in the venerable Palazzo Altieri, so the place could be remodeled into smaller apartments. Levi, of course, had nowhere else...
...landlord decorated the studio's marble staircase with ripe garbage, cut off water and telephone service, and finally tried to budge Levi by painting insulting inscriptions on the studio walls. Samples: "Carlo Levi is a bandit and a rascal. . . . Since Carlo Levi refuses to make way for the worthy and the homeless, can't he have the decency to instruct his girl friends not to slam the door when they leave...
...Artist Levi fought back the only way he knew how. He began painting in the halls a series of frescoes depicting intimate episodes in the life of his landlord...