Word: italian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contained in the document. In style, the document is more frequently couched in invocatory-propagandistic rather than analytical terms, and this makes it impossible to catch the whole novelty, wealth and complexity of the world-revolutionary movement." The words were those of Enrico Berlinguer, the deputy leader of the Italian Communist Party, and he was addressing the other 74 delegations at the world Communist summit meeting in Moscow. Berlinguer was criticizing the 47-page communiqué that the Soviets hoped all the parties would sign as a symbol of Communist solidarity...
Though a team of writers and editors worked round the clock considering some 300 amendments and incorporating 30 of them into the text, the document was still not tailored to Italian taste by the time the conference wound up last week. Berlinguer signed only the section of the four-part document that dealt with the need for combatting imperialism. Three other delegations, including the Australian one, also signed only the anti-imperialism passage. The delegates from the tiny militant party in the Dominican Republic had the temerity not to sign at all. Eight other parties initialed only after expressing reservations...
...speaking in this bourgeois theater?" That was Firebrand Danny Cohn-Bendit, leveling a barrage of billingsgate at Herbert Marcuse, the aging Pied Piper of the New Left, who appeared at Rome's Eliseo Theater to give a lecture, "Beyond the One-Dimensional Man." Danny and some 2,500 Italian students turned out to jeer their former idol following trumped-up charges made by U.S. Communist Party Chief Gus Hall at a Moscow press conference. Hall claimed that Marcuse had been "exposed as working for the CIA since World War II" and was "part of a plot to get youth...
...undergraduate. It was Poet Ezra Pound's first visit to his upstate New York alma mater in 30 years-and his first trip to the U.S. since 1958. One of the foremost poets of the '20s and '30s, Pound made propaganda broadcasts for the Italian government during World War II, and was charged with treason when he was returned to the U.S. He was then declared insane and committed to a mental hospital for 12 years, after which the indictment was dismissed and it was ultimately decided that he was sane after all. Pound has lived...
...hospital's procedures, does not satisfactorily deal with the agonizing time immediately before death. "This period," he says, "is still an unknown entity from the psychological point of view." Even so, he may have made some unexpected progress. With life rapidly slipping from her, an old Italian woman called to a nurse one day. "It is the end, isn't it?" she asked. The nurse nodded, sat next to the old woman and held her hand. "I don't want to die alone," the old woman said. "You won't be alone," the nurse replied...