Word: parente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fausto, Moraldo, Alberto, Leopoldo and Riccardo are five young men who live in a modest Italian sea-side resort of apparently little opportunity. They are shiftless and lusty, though they seldom show this latter quality to the camera. Their chief aim is thwarting their parent's attempts to civilize them by harnessing them with jobs. They just like to drink, laugh, dance...
When is a Communist not a Communist? Are there Communists in various degrees like good, better, best? Or bad, worse, worst? Or from mild to fanatic? I wonder if Gomulka is less a Communist for having divorced the parent country, or has he perhaps discovered a secret Utopia that compels him to remain essentially a Communist? It is very strange...
...grade schools last week, doctor-nurse teams set up shop behind desks in classrooms and readied their needles. At the Clarence M. Burton School, kindergartners wound in a tearful line to the shot-room door, each moppet clutching his school record and a yellow permission slip signed by a parent. Two doctors worked at assembly-line pace-one shot every 20 seconds. At four health centers, preschool infants were getting shots, and adults could have them for the asking. Dr. Molner's goal: 80,000 shots (80% of the children in the worst disease area) before the holidays begin...
...system of large universities could be deemphasized to counter what the Fund sees as a common tendency for students to wait for "canned" learning rather than to pursue their own educations. The faculty, except for a small core of permanent members, would be largely on temporary leave from the parent insitutions, enabling both students and professors to benefit from a constant exposure to new ways of thinking and teaching...
...gift for languages, brings her albums of great paintings, tries to broaden her knowledge of the world. But Aladar is the pupil, not Lalla. He meets two of her fellow patients-strangely charming Franciska, gently maternal Kati. He dotes on the three girls like a fond parent, becomes absorbed in the hothouse flush of the sanatorium where almost everyone seems young and beautiful because so few live long enough to grow old and ugly. He loves the rhythms of their life, the fevered excitements followed by exhausted pauses; he loves their talk with its curious mix ture of simple...