Word: dio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soprano Leontyne Price brought a hush to the crowd with Verdi's Pace, Pace, Mio Dio, and then the guests began to file slowly out of the tent. Like a contented preacher, White House Aide Hamilton Jordan stood at the exit, shaking hands and clasping shoulders. "Begin for President," he said, and the Israeli Premier embraced him. Inside the White House, where there was champagne and dancing, the Marine Band was playing Cole Porter's Well, Did You Evah! which ends with the line "What a swell party this...
...husband's old campaign T shirts in Cuba, by toasting the women's movement during a state banquet in Mexico, and by singing a song she had written for the wife of Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez in Caracas. When Margaret heard fans of an Ottawa ra dio show complaining of her conduct over the air, she placed a tearful call to the station. "I don't feel I did anything wrong," she said. "If you rely completely on protocol, you can become a robot...
SHALAMIT RAN, 27, grew up in Israel, began composing works in her head at seven. When she was nine, her teacher wrote down one of her songs, which was played on the ra dio. Delighted at hearing her own music, she started writing it out herself and at 14 produced her first symphonic work. The New York Philharmonic performed her Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic premiered her piano concerto. Although many women composers feel that developing their talent leaves no room for domesticity, Ran is married-to a jazz musician. It annoys Ran that on divulging...
Marathon Meeting. The newest crisis grew out of three issues: 1) the seizure by leftist printers of the Socialist newspaper República, which reopened briefly last week only to be closed again; 2) a takeover by workers of Rádio Renascença, the official station of the Roman Catholic Church, which led to violence between Catholic and anticlerical demonstrators; 3) a bid by the Socialists to turn the new Constituent Assembly into a more formal parliament; that move was opposed by the Communists because their representation, based on their 12.5% showing in April's elections, would...
...dio Renascença affair sharply echoes the República dispute. Trouble has been brewing at the station ever since Catholic authorities refused to allow newscasters to report the return from exile of Soares and Communist Party Chief Alvaro Cunhal after the 1974 revolution. Three weeks ago workers who wanted a say in the radio's editorial policy seized control and began broadcasting. When 3,000 anticlerical leftists turned out to demonstrate at the residence of António Cardinal Ribeiro in Lisbon last week, they were met by 700 Catholics. The Catholics, including 150 priests...