Word: beniamino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beniamino Placido, Italian member of the International Seminar, throws out his arm to reinforce his words. From his hand a forgotten book-bag swings like an over-wrought pendulum...
...Beniamino Placido, writer for II Mondo, emphasized the growth of Italy's communist party as both a cause and a result of the failure of the country's "so-called democratic parties" to put through effective plans for social change. Placido depicted the Italian communist party as a catch-all for protest votes from citizens with a wide variety of discontents. The Christian Democrats, Italy's largest party, is ineffective because "like a huge mass of jelly" it is always in danger of breaking when it moves in response to public pressure. The right-wing of the party evidences...
Parma, birthplace of Toscanini, takes such a fierce pride in the standards of its Teatro Regio that at one time or another Parmensi have booed virtually all the big names in Italian opera. "Go back to Rome, fatty!" shouted the galleries after the late Tenor Beniamino Gigli hit a sour note. Toscanini swore never again to step into the Parma pit after a heckler upset a 1912 performance of the Forza del Destino overture by shouting "Maestro, the violins are out of tune!" But lately the gallery gadflies are getting even sharper -or performers are getting softer. Opera has almost...