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...Frank P. Casa, a specialist on Spanish literature of the Golden Age, and Donald A. Stone, Jr., whose field is French Renaissance literature, will become assistant professors of Romance Languages and Literatures...
Soprano Lisa Delia Casa has carved a career for herself in Strauss operas and can also confidently interpret his lieder. Here she sings Zueignung, Stündchen, and other songs of Strauss's youth in a voice like silver filigree. Her accompanist, Arpad Sandor, achieves the same fragile brilliance on the piano as they evoke both the dark and lighter moods of love...
Looking for Leadership. In answer to all this, Illia remains placidly in his Casa Rosada office, seeing all who come to call, but issuing few orders. As head of a government that includes everyone from right to left, he remains the one possible unifying figure, but he does little to fulfill the role. His opposition is beginning to score by labeling his regime the government of the turtle; one group recently released 200 tortoises in downtown Buenos Aires with the slogan LONG LIVE THE GOVERNMENT On their backs. Illia's response to that was: "Turtle? Fine. Slow but sure...
Pilgrims arrived every day by the hundreds. Hotels sprang up. A hospital, Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, was built with the help of $400,000 raised by New York's Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. In the piazza outside the church where Padre Pio said Mass and heard confessions, hand-painted tiles bearing the padre's bearded face and other tasteless souvenirs were on sale...
...fados "the sweet crying" of African slave songs or Gregorian chants. By the 18th century, Portuguese sailors were singing the sad songs to prostitutes, who sang them to aristocrats and other opinion makers. The first great fadista was Maria Severa, a gypsy prostitute who sang in a low-life casa do fado in the 1830s. She devoted her 26 dissolute years to bed and bullfights, wine and fado, and her legend is so much with the Portuguese that fadistas still wear black shawls in mourning...