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Italians could not understand a grown man making such a fuss about being baptized; said one Rome theatergoer: "We get that taken care of the first week we're alive." Wrote Rome's independent Il Momento: "This is a prime example of American qualunquismo. . . .* It is naturally acclaimed by a people who like to see on their stage only a depiction of their own small lives." Wrote another: "Who knows but what [Premier] De Gasperi may have got mixed up in the theater and staged this? Like him, it praises all the simple virtues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: The Play's the Thing | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

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