Word: romes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...utilize the camera while handicapped by the frugality of post-war Italy. But out of such handicaps have grown the film's virtues. Somehow it is almost forgotten that "Shoeshine" was written, acted, directed. Rather it seems that the camera has moved unnoticed down the among the gamins of Rome's streets and recorded there a bit of life as it was happening in Italy...
...Genoa, Turin. There we are roughly equal with the enemy. They outnumber us in Sesto San Giovanni. We outnumber them 3 to 1 at Varese . . . by 4 to 1 at Bergamo and 2 to 1 at Brescia. . . ." Milan's A.C. was not the only Catholic resistance group. In Rome (and elsewhere) Catholic youths organized and marched...
Meanwhile in Rome last week the national government got a new vice premier. He was Randolfo Pacciardi, handsome 48-year-old leader of the leftish Italian Republican Party. As organizer and commander of the anti-Fascist Garibaldi Brigade on the Loyalist side in the Spanish Civil War, Pacciardi had fought side by side with Communists. He had thought for a long time that it was possible to cooperate with Reds, but he had changed his mind. "Until now," he said, "we have made attempts at pacification . . . but we cannot continue merely reciting prayers in a world of wolves...
...celebrate the birth of God as man. The quality of their gifts has depended as much on their times as on themselves, and what they brought was sometimes meaningful, sometimes beautiful, but not always both together. If the early Christians who painted frescoes by candlelight in the catacombs of Rome had not sufficient skill to match the underground fire of their faith, Raphael, who worked with consummate grace for a triumphant Church, lacked their pent force...
Lamplit Target. The excitement, color, and fighting of Ben-Hur, though set in the Rome of the early Christian martyrs, came out of Wallace's own vivid experience, says Biographer McKee. He had been stimulated to think out his own religious convictions to answer the century's famed atheist, Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll. It took him seven years to write the novel. When three-quarters of the book was finished, he was recalled to New Mexico. Wallace worked on Ben-Hur in the governor's mansion at Santa Fe, an old building with grime-covered walls, rain...