Word: partinico
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Danilo Dolci is a Christian with deceptively simple ideas about living his faith. Last winter, noticing the bad condition of the roads near the town of Partinico and the great numbers of unemployed in the town itself Dolci decided to kill two bad birds with one stone. He gathered together some 200 of the unemployed fishermen and farmhands and went to work on the roads. They would work without pay, he said, in the hope that the government would later reward them. When cops objected to this unauthorized labor, Danilo Dolci refused to stop and was clapped into jail. Last...
...judge interrupted: "When Police Chief Di Giorgi ordered you to suspend work on the road, why did you make no answer?" "If someone ordered me to kill you, Mr. President,'' Dolci replied softly, "I would not obey. To fill up the holes in a road in Partinico is a good, useful, almost indispensable act. That is why I didn't stop...
Forbidden to go on with his irrigating, Dolci moved on to another town. Partinico, and began once more to plague those in authority. Without bothering to get official permission, he set up a first-aid station in one of the town's back alleys. A spate of pamphlets poured from his angry pen asking, among other questions, "How many people in Partinico will hang themselves this year?" and "How many will go mad?" Dressed in a thick, white pullover sweater, he was often to be seen waiting in the local mayor's office to demand attention on some...
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