Word: levis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Levi, who formerly covered U.N. sessions at Lake Success, will spend a month with U.N. troops in Korea, a month in Japan and a third month touring southeast Asia. He is mailing his copy home because Borba can't spare dollars for cables...
...Panmunjom, U.N. correspondents flocked eagerly around to watch Titoist Levi meet the Red reporters covering the truce talks. The Reds eyed Levi coldly. Said Chu Chi Ping, a Chinese reporter, to Americans: "I enjoy talking to you. I know who you are and where you stand. But this man is neither fish nor fowl...
When Hungarian Correspondent Tibor Merai spoke contemptuously to Levi about Tito, the Yugoslav retorted: "Where was [Hungarian Deputy Premier] Rakosi when our peoples were fighting for their liberation? In a hotel in Russia eating caviar, while Tito was fighting in the mountains." Sputtered Merai: "You call yourself a Communist...
Later, a correspondent remarked to Levi: "They called you a fascist. That's almost as bad as being a capitalist, isn't it?" Replied Levi: "Yes, almost...
There was nothing narcotic about the year's novels from Italy. The two best were by Alberto Moravia: Conjugal Love, which dealt with a nasty marriage conflict without becoming nasty, and The Conformist, the case history of a weakling whose weakness made him a Fascist. Carlo Levi (Christ Stopped at Eboli) came a cropper with The Watch, a sympathetic but unfocused look at his postwar land, but Giuseppe Berto followed an uneven first novel (The Sky Is Red) with The Brigand, the story of an Italian Robin Hood which exposed the despair of ordinary people with a fine mixture...