Word: risorgimento
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro do Bosis Lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization, will give his final lecture before retiring today at noon in Harvard Hall 1. Professor Salvemini's talk will be the last in his course on the history of the Italian Risorgimento...
Supporters of De Gasperi's Christian Democrats candidly viewed the Pescara preview as a warning of the Front's Strength. Warned Risorgimento: "A typical town . . . that represents a good crosssection of the Italian population has given almost half its vote to the Front. . . . There can be little illusion that unless something is done, the national political elections will have similar results...
...likes to call itself), Harvard's library spends more money a year on the upkeep of valuable but out-of-the-way bequests than it does on books that its undergraduates use. For the searching scholar it houses shelves full of irreplaceable documents on the Italian Risorgimento, Congo dialects, cooking and the privately printed pornographies of Mark Twain. Some of its treasures haven't been consulted by any one for half a century. Some others come in handy: during World War II, members of Harvard's 600-man library staff could predict coming invasions by the books...
...sharpest, most revealing reaction came from bowed and bitter Italy, a critical testing ground for democracy's powers of resistance-and offense. From Rome, TIME Correspondent Emmet Hughes reported: "There was no doubt this time that the U.S. means business. Wrote Rome's conservative Risorgimento Liberate: 'We are confronted with a declaration of war, limited to the ideological plane but nonetheless categorical.' Christian Democratic Party leaders reason that if the U.S. is backing George of Greece despite the character of his regime, it will go much further in support of the Christian Democrats here...
...disappears from our customs an archaic hangover from the days of the Spaniards. To give the title of Excellency no longer is a prerogative of the state but of shoeshine boys who may use or abuse it at their will and the will of their clients." Said the moderate Risorgimento Liber ale: "Don't be angry, Eccellenza Nenni, but do you think it is wise to attack Neapolitan shoeshine boys, who also will have their share in elections, with a tendency towards socialism? . . . And do you know-Freud found that our indignation at a word or a contemptible action...