Word: campari
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interfere with his career. He does not smoke, sips a single sherry or Campari before dinner, and occasionally twirls a brandy glass afterward. A bachelor, he lives modestly in a two-room apartment a few paces from Berkeley Square. One of his few indulgences is a sizable stereophonic record collection; though he is fond of art ("I'm afraid the abstracts don't appeal to me"), his most valuable pictures are a pair of landscapes in oil, signed W.S.C., that were a gift from the Old Gentleman who painted them. He occasionally takes a girl out to dinner...
Composer Castelnuovo-Tedesco, 66, one of the most prolific and successful of Italy's traditionalist composers, wrote his Merchant in competition for the "Campari Prize," awarded by the opera-loving manufacturers of that bitter Italian aperitif. Castelnuovo-Tedesco's winning entry shifted some of the play's action around, telescoped five acts into three, transformed some scenes into ballets, added Shakespeare's Sonnet No. 109 ("O! Never say that I was false of heart") for his third-act finale. Under Castelnuovo-Tedesco's streamlining, the evils of intolerance become the play's main theme...
From the beginning, Castelnuovo-Tedesco never had any doubt that his opera would win the Campari Prize and triumph over the jinx. "The Merchant is one of the least properly exploited of Shakespeare's plays," said he last week. And he added, paraphrasing his contemporary, Shylock: "I am content...
...Well, for which Mrs. Keys supplied 200 tasty recipes. The Keyses do not eat "carving meat" - steaks, chops, roasts - more than three times a week, and a single entree normally is not repeated more than once every three weeks. For cocktails they have martinis or negronis (¼ gin, ¼ Campari bitters, ¼ sweet or dry vermouth, ¼ soda water, over ice in an old-fashioned glass). The typical Keys dinner contains 1,000 calories, only 20% of which come from fats of any kind, 5% from saturated fats. A sample menu: pasta al brodo (turkey broth with noodles), veal scallopine...