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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...
...Poggioli's wife and daughter survived the accident, but Mrs. Poggioli remains in the hospital critically hurt. His daughter, Silvia, was not seriously injured and has been released...
...native of Florence, Italy, Poggioli received the D.Litt. degree from the University of Florence in 1929. He taught at Florence and at Wine and Warsaw in Poland before coming to the United States...
...Poggioli, his wife and daughter were traveling to Reed College in Portland, Ore., after spending the current academic year at Stanford University where Poggioli was doing research as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences...
Fluent in Russian, Polish, French, English, and Italian, Poggioli was considered a leading authority on Russian literature. His book, "The Poets of Russia, 1890-1930," won the 1960 Faculty Prize of the Harvard University Press for the most distinguished contribution to scholarship published among its works that year...