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...curtain time last week, Italian opera fans had promised to fill the theater and boo Von Karajan right off the podium. Tenor Gianni Raimondi, who was hired to sing the role, was getting threatening phone calls for betraying his countryman. Said Di Stefano: "I'm seriously thinking of going to live in Katanga, where they are more civilized...
...house that Director Ducreux had a hit on his hands. As for the riot, noted Ducreux tolerantly, "It was a cabal against me, a vegetable rich cabal. The hecklers were only looking for a raison d'être. They have-modified Descartes' statement to make it "I boo, therefore I exist...
...Benny Goodman, as he shook hands with another guest at the U.S. Embassy's Fourth of July reception in Moscow. But Benny dug the wrong cat. Arching his back, Nikita Khrushchev replied: "No, I don't like Goodman music. I like good music." All jazz started off "boo-boo-boo-boo-boo," complained the Soviet Premier, setting it to his own clopping time by dancing a jig on the front lawn of Spaso House. Russian or American, it was all Chinese to him, and so was that other whatchamacallit, abstract art. Amateur Painter Dwight Eisenhower once told...
...Roman Catholic Archbishop of Algiers. ''To repay evil with evil," he warned his fellow Europeans, "is to be conquered by evil. Replying to crime with crime is dishonor. To attack the innocent, inflicting cruel punishment upon them, is an offense against God!" In answer, his parishioners openly boo the archbishop in his cathedral and sneeringly refer to him as "Mohammed Duval...
True to professional hockey's lusty tradition, loyal fans of the New York Rangers boo the visiting team, jeer at the referee and greet home-team blunders with showers of eggs and cries of "Ya jerk, ya"-a provincialism once reserved for the bumbling baseball players who inhabited Brooklyn's Ebbets Field. Last week, when the New Yorkers blew a 2-1 lead to the Toronto Maple Leafs, a sullen crowd clustered outside the Ranger dressing room to taunt their tarnished heroes. "Aw, go back to Montreal!" one fan yelled at Player-Coach Doug Harvey. "Whatsamatter, Gump...