Word: uomo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe that is steadily congealing into collectivism, a middleaged, roly-poly, red-haired Italian is successfully preaching the gospel of individualism. His message: the future belongs not to the politicians but to uomo qualunque (the common man). Last week a stream of converts-horny-handed artisans, lacquered Army officers, silk-stockinged girls, broad-veiled nuns, clerks and plain common men- were beating a path up a back street of Rome to the house of the prophet...
...Uomo Qualunque. Many millions of Italians regard the country's tangled politics and its faction-shaded parties (six are represented in the Government) with disgust and fear. Symptomatically, Italy's most widely read topical weekly is Rome's three-lire Uomo Qualunque (Common Man or Man-in-the-Street). Its founder and editor: Guglielmo Giannini, a theatrical producer, never a politician...
...parties and programs, calls on Italy's common man to form his own party and leadership. Contributions have poured in on Giannini. Much of the money comes from the rich, and the paper has not escaped suspicion of being an organ of a new form of fascism. But Uomo Qualunque has not openly joined any movement...
Last week he characterized himself: "I am a common man-uomo della strada. I am just another guy-uomo qualunque ... I hope a typical one. My job is not only to prevent the right and left wings from exercising undue influence on the Government, but I have to think too of the enormous masses of peasants sweating in the fields under the sun, blacksmiths beating their anvils in villages, workers, men and women everywhere who have no taste for politics and are outside parties. ... I am just a uomo della strada...