Word: poggioli
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...McCarthy shame, graduate students were required to sign loyalty oaths when they applied for government grants. A dean at Harvard defended this practice as being merely pro forma--of no greater significance than licking the stamps on the application envelopes. At a faculty meeting, the great Italian scholar Renato Poggioli stood up and commented, "Mr. Dean, I am from Fascist Italy, and I will tell you something. First you licka the stamps, then you licka something else...