Word: slovenian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Laughing in the Jungle, the story of his first 15 years in the U. S. (1913-28), Slovenian Immigrant Louis Adamic called the U. S. "a vast socio-economic jungle." His "bursts of laughter," he confesses, were really a bluff to hide his fear. My America, running to 669 big pages of fine print, carries his story down to two months ago. "I am no longer 'scared' of the 'jungle,' " says Adamic, "and so I do not need to 'laugh' as much as I used to. In fact, hardly...
...most interesting when he writes about experiences where he got involved. He writes better, for example, about a girl hitchhiker he picked up than about John L. Lewis; better about Manhattan radical-intellectuals as personalities than about their role as intellectual counter-parts of the McNamara dynamiters; better about Slovenian peasants than about C. I. O. The letters written to him by a Hollywood friend are interesting for their violence rather than for the sociological value he attributes to them...
Typical of the country's reaction was that of a Roman Catholic priest named Anton Koroshetz. As leader of the Slovenian People's Party Father Koroshetz has been interned on a Dalmatian island for almost two years. Last week he begged and obtained permission to go to Split "to say a prayer and drop a tear on the coffin of my king...