Word: carlos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will sit hour after hour backstage after exhausting performances, dutifully signing autographs ("Poor things," she murmurs, "poor things"). She still regards public figures outside opera with the awe of a country girl on her first trip to the city. Several years ago she heard about the "Night in Monte Carlo" ball at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, at which Prince Rainier was to celebrate his engagement to Grace Kelly. Without a thought that she could have been an honored guest at the ball, Tebaldi went over to the Waldorf lobby, settled herself in a chair and sat there wide-eyed...
Gingrich likes works by Thomas Wolfe, Gian Carlo Menotti, Paddy Chayefsky, William Inge, Truman Capote. Says he: "Brains wear better than beauty...
Villa in the Sun. In 1913 Service settled into an expatriate's life in France. The Service ballads, still selling a steady 20,000 books a year, financed the sybaritic life he led in Brittany, Nice, and in his ocher-faced Monte Carlo villa surveying the azure Mediterranean where Tennyson once slept. For four decades he soaked up the kindly sun. "I want every day of my life to belong to me, to do with as I please," he said...
WORDS ARE STONES: IMPRESSIONS OF SICILY (212 pp.)-Carlo Lev!-Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
...Carlo Levi is a north Italian, but he is one of the few writers alive who can bring Sicily to the printed page without losing a scrap of myth, beauty and horror. In Christ Stopped at Eboli (TIME, May 5, 1947), Levi dealt with life in Lucania, an even poorer region, and the book brought him such fame that he now writes with a special sense of mission about the Italian poor. His weaknesses are 1) too much self-consciousness in his pleading, 2) too little skepticism respecting the left. Yet few will read Author Levi's Impressions...