Word: moravia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WHEEL OF FORTUNE-Alberto Moravia-Viking...
...every Italian wears a black shirt. Not every Italian writer is dead, like Pirandello, nor in exile, like Ignazio Silone (TIME, April 5). Last week U. S. readers were again introduced to Author Alberto Moravia, in an extremely readable if not altogether first-rate novel which managed to throw some highlights on contemporary Rome without once mentioning Mussolini...
...INDIFFERENT ONES?Alberto Moravia ? Dutton ($2.50). Witty tragedy by a young Italian who has studied Aldous Huxley...
Wrecked off the U. S. Pacific Coast in 1924, on a return voyage from San Francisco to New Siberia, Trader Welzl, lacking identification papers, was deported to his homeland Czechoslovakia. He had never heard of the place. Long before the War he had left Moravia to wander far & wide. Returned there a Czech, he lectured, dictated reminiscences (made literate by others), collected money enough to return to his polar home...
...Moravia, there are 100 places exceptionally rich in diluvial deposits. Every year the Czechoslovakian Government gives large sums of money for the excavation of these paleontological treasure houses. The new Institute is designed especially to be a centre for such activities...