The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Saturday November 12th, 2022
Giuseppe Antonio Borgese: Common Cause by Rene Wadlow
G.A. Borgese (1882 -1952) whose birth anniversary we note on 12 November, was an Italian-born professor of literature at the University of Chicago and a leading world citizen in the late 1940s. In 1931, Borgese was a visiting professor at the University of California when Mussolini announced that an oath of allegiance to the Italian Fascist state would be required of all Italian professors. Borgese did not go back and wrote to Mussolini “My dwelling place can only be where it is permitted a writer to be truly a writer.” Borgese published “Goliath; The March of Fascism” (1937) when few in the United States were following political events in Italy. He developed further his views as the Second World War developed in “Common Cause.” (1)
In 1939 he married Elizabeth Mann, youngest daughter of the German writer Thomas Mann who was living in exile in Princeton, New Jersey. In the mid-1970s, I knew Elizabeth Mann Borgese who had become a specialist on law of the sea issues.
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Leo Pacheco from Tortugas #poem & #painting by Virginia Maria Romero
“With feathers flying –
the drums beat
swirls dust
rising from under his dancing feet
His children keep rhythm
with his heartbeat –
as his prayers are answered…”
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Insert Brain Here 2.0 #025 #cartoon by Paul Woods
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