Word: delle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BLACK PEARL, by Scott O'Dell (Houghton Mifflin; $3.25). The author of The Island of the Blue Dolphins has turned out another excellent novel; this one captures all the mysteries and dangers of pearl diving off the Baja California coast. For good measure, it adds a real live sea monster...
...weapon--mimic ability--carried the show. On top of which, the CIA as usual was technically flawless. The set it put together, even forgetting the incredibly short notice it had for last night's performance, was remarkable. So were the uniformly clever and colorful costumes. This being a commedia dell'arte with updated themes and references, it required character masks, and these were wonderfully expressive...
...California includes a veritable gallery of Shahn's recent enthusiasms (see color opposite). The sparkling poster for the Festival of Two Worlds at Spoleto, executed at the request of Composer Gian Carlo Menotti, shows a dashing harlequin of the Italian Renaissance theater's commedia dell' arte...
...playwright. For A Midsummer Night's Dream was the finest comedy in the English language until Shakespeare himself surpassed it in Twelfth Night. It is undeniably true that Dream is an unusually eclectic work, drawing its material from Plautus, Plutarch, Ovid, Apuleius, Chaucer, French romance, Italian commedia dell'arte, a couple of earlier English plays, popular folklore, and even Scot's nonfiction treatise The Discoverie of Witchcraft. But Shakespeare worked everything up into a fresh plot of his own -- or, rather, a skillfully unified interlocking set of three plots -- involving four classes of people from supernatural beings down to manual...
...happens, expert Vaticanologists interpreted their elevation as a slight step toward modernizing and liberalizing the Roman bureaucracy. By tradition, one cardinal does not serve under another; several of the new prelates are seconds-in-command to venerable conservatives who presumably will now be induced to retire. Both Angelo Dell'Acqua and Antonio Samoré, the two Vatican under secretaries of state, are considerably more open to church renewal than their superior, Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, 84. France's Archbishop Gabriel Garrone, 65, pro-prefect of the important Congregation for Seminaries, was one of the liberal leaders at the Second...