Word: sicilianism
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Communists did more than talk. A new rash of Communist-inspired strikes broke out in Italy. In the north, dairy and ricefield workers struck. Sicilian dockworkers and Sardinian coal miners threatened to join. In the Red fortress of Bologna, Communists called a 24-hour general strike. The objects of Communist parliamentary and trade-union tactics: to trip up the government as it inched toward stability...
After World War I, De Gasperi joined the Popular Party (Christian Democratic) founded by Don Luigi Sturzo. A Sicilian priest, Sturzo was convinced that Christianity, in order to survive in the 20th Century, must rely on "good deeds" of a new kind-social and political action...
...whose language is strictly from New Jersey, tries to reassure, and flirt with, a half-grown Sicilian girl who knows no English. A German sniper kills them both. 2) A Neapolitan street boy steals the shoes off a drunken Negro soldier. When the Negro spots him later, and sees a little of the neolithic life of Naples' poorest people, he loses interest in his shoes, and learns that U.S. Negroes are not the only unlucky people on earth. 3) A Roman girl, turned prostitute, picks up a besotted soldier, and slowly comes to recognize...
Proletarian Breath. At the Congress' opening session, Guest Speaker Palmiro Togliatti, dapper Communist boss, suavely declared: "Comrades, we feel profoundly united to you." Silver-haired Sicilian Giuseppe Casadei chimed in: "When peasants go to occupy feudal lands, should they go in separate groups, one Communist, one Socialist? When we face Fascist rifle fire, shall the Communists be in one square and the Socialists in another?" Sweepingly he pointed to a placard: "We want the powerful Socialist Party to be the vanguard of the united Popular Democratic Front." Cried he: "There, comrades, is the way to end proletarian enslavement...
...part in the civic life of the city. The Mexicans, segregated on the West Side, have been virtually ignored by the rest of San Antonio's citizens. One who did not ignore them was short (5 ft. 6 in.), good-natured Gaetano Anthony Lucchese, 50, son of a Sicilian immigrant. When Tano Lucchese was 17, his father* sent him to the West Side to manage the old Zaragoza theater. Lucchese liked the movie business; he also liked and understood Mexicans. They liked him too. The adults used the lobby as a meeting place; children were allowed to romp through...