Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Middle of the Ford. The F.L.N. is not a monolithic party but a popular front, including young intellectuals who have read of freedom abroad and hunger for it passionately at home, terrorists who have found a psychological outlet in violent struggle, trade unionists, students studying engineering, medicine and physics in U.S., Egyptian and Russian universities...
...Nazi persecution. One is the Polish Franciscan priest Maximilian Kolbe, who was shipped to a concentration camp in 1939. There one day, Father Kolbe volunteered to take the place of a married man who had been scheduled for punishment. The penalty: death by starvation in Auschwitz' notorious hunger bunker...
Promised Land. As always. North Italy is outpacing the rest of the country. The arid South, despite all the Italian government and U.S. aid money poured in, is still primarily a land of hunger and hopelessness. In startling contrast gleams the prosperity of North Italy, which has replaced the U.S. as the near and visible promised land in the dreams of impoverished Sicilians and Calabrians. "California begins at Milan," runs the current folklore of South Italy and each day hundreds of southerners board northbound trains to seek the living wage they cannot find at home. Last year some...
Vittorio de Sica's Bicycle Thief (1949) typifies the post-war Italian film of realism; it shows simple, poor people enmeshed in an uncomplicated but terrifying trap. Unemployment, hunger and injustice close in on Antonio (Lamberto Maggiorani); he commits an unsuccessful robbery and the film ends on a note of despair...
...into their lives remain in the scribbled pages of their diaries and journals. These diaries are not only added evidence of North Vietnamese intervention in the South, but a full reading of them reveals the nature of the enemy. The guerrillas are far from being supermen; they suffer cold, hunger and other hardships. But they are fiercely indoctrinated, to the point of thinking and writing in Communist jargon, and in their idealism, however misguided, lies much of their strength-a strength the U.S. must understand in order to fight...