Word: enrico
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Complete Caruso (RCA Victor). The master's voice: Enrico Caruso's matchless discography (1902-20), now released on 12 CDs. At home in everything from Puccini arias to George M. Cohan's Over There, Caruso continues to be revered, rightly, as the greatest Italian tenor who ever lived...
Unfortunately, no one had warned ELS (or me) about the World Cup. Italy was playing Uruguay at 3 p.m., and obviously, the Italians would be unable to see the match if they took their tests as scheduled. Enrico asked me to intercede, so I asked if they might take the tests earlier. But the ELS coordinator said no--that would be impossible. I thought the issue dead...
Every problem in the first few days became a pattern. Enrico would ask me a question and I'd answer it. Then he'd ask another question that made it obvious he had misunderstood my answer. So I would repeat my answer again, phrased differently, and he would nod his head and then say something like "So we can take the Red Line to the Aquarium?" when I'd told him, no, they couldn...
...Italians love about the U.S., and some they feel a bit more ambivalent about. Breakfast, for example, which they take 45 minutes to eat, is often the high point of their morning. But it's just hard for me not to feel a bit queasy when I see Enrico putting sugar on his Captain Crunch and in his glass of milk...