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...restless," says University of California President Clark Kerr and he would beyond a doubt include Mario Savio. Born in New York city, Savio glided through high school at the top of a class of 1,200, spent two years in local colleges shopping for majors, then moved with his Sicilian-'immigrant parents to California and entered the university at Berkeley Soon was "disenchanted." He "drifted" into the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ("Snick") and last summer joined a Freedom School in McComb, Miss., to teach Negroes poetry history, math and genetics-"a good subject to show how black and white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: When & Where to Speak | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

...composer frequently given to writing symphonic paeans to the U.S.) for performance by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London. The University of Indiana chorus prepared a new oratorio, taken from a Nov. 24, 1963, New York Times editorial that began: "The leaden skies of yesterday were like a pall." Sicilian troubadours chanted a musical legend that grew up among the island's villagers after Kennedy died: "With his big heart and full of courage/ He attracted the people with his manner/ And many, many learned the language/ Of peace and loyalty without making fools of themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: In Remembrance | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

SEDUCED AND ABANDONED. Youthful indiscretions set off a sunny Sicilian nightmare in this tragicomedy by Pietro Germi (Divorce-Italian Style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 20, 1964 | 11/20/1964 | See Source »

SEDUCED AND ABANDONED. Youthful indiscretions set off a sunny Sicilian nightmare in this savage tragicomedy by Italian Director Pietro Germi (Divorce- Italian Style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: Nov. 13, 1964 | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

...should live with her. Exactly, said her father, but "when I saw him before me, this man who had ruined my daughter and my entire existence, my intention gave way to instinct. My hand went automatically to my pistol and I fired away!" He added, "Unfortunately, I am a Sicilian, and in my veins I have blood, not dirty water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: A Course in Geography | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

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