Word: egos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mussolini was not the only Italian whose voice last week echoed Italy's blus tery, tinseled-glory era. In bomb-scarred Milan, II Duce's good friend and admirer, Alfredo Cardinal Schuster, also tried to revive the deflated Italian ego. The 63-year-old Italian Cardinal was born in Rome, son of a Vatican Swiss Guard, whose members come from the Swiss can tons of Zurich and Lucerne...
German bourgeoisie," written when Mann was 25. The second great task came 25 years later in The Magic Mountain, a study of "a friendly alter ego" in the midst of "European intellectual controversies." The third great task came in his middle 50s, when Mann found in the story of Joseph a theme embracing "the typical, the eternally human, eternally recurring, timeless-in short, the mythical...
...only really likable characters in Wagnerian opera are old men. While the youthful Siegfrieds, Tristans and Tannhausers are all muscle-on the stage, mostly stomach-and ego, their elders (Wotan, Hans Sachs, Kurwenal, et al.) are mostly kindhearted, responsible, possessed of human failings and a regard for social obligations. For 20 years at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera these benign Wagnerian oldsters have been impersonated by the outstanding Wagnerian baritone of his generation, stocky, bald-headed Friedrich Schorr. Last week, before a packed house that rose to its feet and cheered, Friedrich Schorr sang Wotan for the last time...
...Fascist Grand Council and then appointed Ambassador to the Vatican. As a Council member he saved face in the Party. As Vatican envoy he kept some of his social prestige (and was in a position to meet diplomatic representatives of enemy countries). He needed these cushions for his ego because the "change of guard" removed him from his position as heir apparent to the Italian dictatorship, and from his easy access to the public trough. Both the Italian people and their German overlords had reason to be pleased...
...Christ was born. It was a Roman colony after the fall of Carthage. It was the seat of Barbary coast pirates who waged a losing war against the U.S. Navy in the early 1800s. Since 1912, when the Italians wrested it from Turkish rule, it had bolstered the Italian ego. Since 1933, when Mussolini began exploiting its riches, it had inflated Italian pride. Losing it was a shock...