Word: partinicio
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...written into the order of things that men cannot even dream of change." The indictment took the form of a series of books whose titles tell their own story: To Feed the Hungry, Act Speedily and Rightly, for People are Dying, and Outlaws. Outlaws describes an area called Partinicio, where the population's "650 years at school ... is balanced by a total of more than 3000 years spent in prison." As in the rest of Sicily, hunger and unemployment drive men to crime, and Dolci says it is typical that, though four and a half billion lira were spent...
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