Word: alberto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the country was in the midst of its sixth Cabinet crisis in 18 months-and President Joao Goulart was engaged in another of those nimble political maneuvers by which he solves nothing but somehow survives. Out as Finance Minister went Carlos Alberto Alves Carvalho Pinto, 53, the able onetime governor of Sao Paulo state, who resigned in anger after six hopeless months of struggle against Brazil's wild inflation (about 85% in 1963), its fleeing capital and its immense foreign debt. In to cope with the same problems came Ney Galvao, 60, a smalltime provincial banker whose...
Cynthia's first big assignment was enough to daunt the wiliest old pro: her orders were to get hold of the Italian naval code book. Within a few weeks of first meeting the shapely Betty Pack, Italy's naval attache, Admiral Alberto Lais, was so scuppered by her that he surrendered the code with hardly a murmur. Italian apologists maintain that Lais, who died in 1951, was actually so ungallant as to give his mistress a fake cipher book. Undeniably, however, British Intelligence thereafter proved uncannily adept at forestalling Italian fleet movements, notably in the March...
Wilde Postcard. It is often hard to disagree with the judgment. Born in Rome in 1880 and grandiosely christened Guglielmo Alberto Wladimoro Alessandro Apollinaire Kostrowitzky, the future poet was in fact the bastard son of a beautiful Polish courtesan and an unknown man, possibly of noble blood. "Your father a sphinx," Apollinaire once bitterly gibed at himself, "your mother a one-night stand." At 19, he was helping his mother swindle a hotelkeeper in Belgium out of three months' food and lodging. At 20, when a young English governess refused to accept his hand in marriage, he threatened...
...work was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic to celebrate its first season at Lincoln Center last year, but the second season was well under way when Argentine Composer Alberto Ginastera's Violin Concerto was finally heard in New York. Soloist Ruggiero Ricci and the orchestra did not rehearse the full concerto together until the morning of the premiere. But when the musicians reached the final instrumental fantasy that ends the work, the composer was forgiven his wish to linger over his music. The players leapt to their feet with rare shouts of "Bravo!"-as much for the absent...
...should serve all music while retaining a special interest in modern works. In its early years, it championed the works of Bartok and Schoenberg particularly, and it has played premieres of some of the best chamber music written in this century-notably the second quartets of Elliott Carter and Alberto Ginastera. Such missionary work has helped to stimulate a widening revival of interest in chamber music, and the Juilliard (which receives at least one new composition a week from hopeful composers) takes .paternal delight in the growing number of string quartets around the country. Fear of competition-at their lofty...