Word: emilia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just lurking silently on the sidelines. It would be easier to externalize his deviltry entirely, but it would be wrong. To the personages of the drama, Iago must seem honest; otherwise Othello becomes a stupid idiot (which he is not), to say nothing of Iago's own wife, Emilia, who only at the very end learns the true nature of her spouse. Drake is right to look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under...
...Brookes is fine as Desdemona, "the sweetest innocent that e'er did lift up eye." Her handling of the moments when she is slapped and bewhored by Othello is deeply affecting, and her dying words most touching. Olive Deering does well as the loose Bianca. But Sada Thompson's Emilia is too Desdemona-like; she ought to be sharply contrasted with her mistress--less refined, more common and blunt, at times even vulgar. I suspect the result would have been better if the Misses Thompson and Deering had exchanged roles...
...Charity. But as evictions increased, La Pira stepped up his requisitions. Early this year. La Pira ran into his first big trouble. La Pira coveted the splendid Fiesole villa of septuagenarian Princess Emilia Ruspoli. He moved in 57 evictees, delivered a note to the princess, reading: "I am sure you are grateful for the opportunity I have given you to do a great act of charity and so to insure that God will take you up to paradise...
Encounter in Odessa. Pietro Leoni was born in a small mountain town in "Red Emilia," hotbed of Italian Communism, and was educated for the priesthood at the Vatican's Russian College, training center for Russian priests and missionaries bound for the U.S.S.R.-if and when they are permitted there. When Italian troops marched into the U.S.S.R. in 1941 alongside their Nazi allies, Russian-speaking Jesuit Leoni went along as a chaplain. In 1943, released by the disintegrating Italian army, he decided to stay on in Russia as a civilian priest and settled in Odessa, which had been abandoned...
...little town of Carpineti in Emilia, a frustrated Communist named Guerrino Costi peered through an inn window at a party of celebrating antiCommunists, fired several shots into the crowd, killing two. When cops grabbed him, Costi said: "I wanted to teach a lesson to the parish priest and the Christian Democrat reactionaries...