Word: milan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last seats in Milan's La Scala opera house sold for $40 twenty minutes before curtain time last week. All of Milan society was there, in rustling silks, jewels and white ties; high above the first red-brocaded boxes sat elderly retired musicians in shiny, worn evening clothes. In all, 3,500 had jammed in to welcome their favorite son back to Milan...
...tactic was old; international Communism had gone through three distinct phases of softening its militancy.† As early as last January, there were signs that the Red propaganda line would revert to "peace." Girding their loins for the Italian elections and the Marshall Plan battle. Communists meeting in Milan formed a "peace front" (TIME, Jan. 19), which in Palmiro Togliatti's words would "characterize Communist activity throughout the present historical phase" and would play on "the profound anguish which grips all classes at the very thought...
...longtime professor at the Catholic Institute of Paris, Maritain has lectured at top European universities (Oxford, Heidelberg, Louvain, Milan). The fall of France found him on the U.S. university lecture circuit (Chicago, Harvard, Columbia, Princeton). He settled down to a Greenwich Village exile, walked daily to mass at old St. Joseph's, consumed quantities of peanuts and ginger ale, and held a Sunday salon frequented by savants and celebrities. Said Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr: "Maritain [belongs] to that small company of great spirits in any age from whom one may learn...
...Milan, Italy...
...votes were cast by people who were just antiCommunists. I've even talked to a monarchist who believed that we will restore the monarchy. Yet it is our essential moral duty to bring about reforms that will raise wails from these six millions." Said Father "X," the Milan priest who organized Catholic partisans and kept machine guns in his study last winter (TIME, Dec. 29): "We must be with the workers. They are 'us.' The industrialists and landowners are 'they...