Word: carrara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beginning could hardly have been more appropriate. There were the firemen searching the decrepit Teatro degli Animosi (Theater of the Courageous) in the Italian town of Carrara for bombs. Only after they had given the all clear did the Third International Congress of Anarchist Federations call itself to order-of a sort. As it turned out, there was more than enough verbal bombast to compensate for the lack of real bombs...
...Caroline and Pauline received various duchies in Italy; and Napoleon's widowed mother became Son Altesse Impériale Madame la Mère de l'Empereur. Napoleon gave them all immense allowances (which they all shrewdly kited into fortunes-Elisa by reopening the marble quarries at Carrara and flooding Europe with marble busts of the Emperor...
...most fashionable parish in town. The families who lived on "the Heights" were well-to-do, and the house of worship they built at 120 Summit Avenue was a monument to their generosity. The stained-glass windows were by Tiffany; the altar, pulpit and lectern were of the best Carrara marble...
Boos & Blows. According to Carrara, a particularly important function of his claque is to discipline the amateur fans who applaud for love of music, not money, but who have little knowledge of opera. When he spots amateurs about to start a demonstration, Carrara musters a detachment of claqueurs to drown them out. When Maria Callas sang in Poliuto (TIME, Dec. 19, 1960), a group of Stella's fans booed Callas, were drowned out by the claque and became so enraged that they started a slugging match that sent two combatants to jail. Although the La Scala claque never shouts...
Visitors to Italy are often puzzled that the claque is disappearing elsewhere but still seems necessary in the very birth place of opera. The explanation, says Carrara, lies in the national temperament : "Italians are too lazy to clap, so we have to help them...