Word: gaetano
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...being introduced in this election. To offset the same kind of voter distrust that has generated anti-Washington feelings in the U.S. presidential primaries, Italian parties for the first time signed up a host of non-political "personality" candidates. The Christian Democrats nominated Nuclear Physicist Luigi Broglio, respected Banker Gaetano Stammati and Auto Executive Umberto Agnelli. Agnelli, 41, is the younger brother and second in command to Fiat's Gianni Agnelli, Italy's leading industrialist. (Gianni had considered running as a centrist Republican Party candidate but bowed out instead after Umberto filed...
...evening early in 1971, as Author Gay Gaetano Galante Septimo Talese (The Kingdom and the Power, Honor Thy Father) was walking home from a Manhattan restaurant with his wife, he spotted a sign on a Lexington Avenue third-floor window: LIVE NUDE MODELS. That was when Talese, a lapsed Catholic of conventionally moralistic upbringing, suddenly realized that the sexual revolution had landed almost literally at his doorstep. Next day he walked back alone for his first massage-parlor massage...
This lectureship was founded by Ruth Draper in 1938 in memory of Lauro de Bosis for the appointment of lecturers who would "trace the influence and illuminate the gifts which Italian culture has given to the world." The first appointee was Professor Gaetano Salvemini, then in exile. He received the stipend until his return to his professorship at the University of Florence after...
...Gaetano Salvemina, who Prodi called a "symbol of anti-fascism for the Italians during World War II" was the first political exile to benefit from the lectureship...
...other words, exactly what San Franciscans have come to expect of their opera. The company's tradition goes back to a genially schizoid Italian named Gaetano Merola who founded it back in 1923. Merola was schizoid in that, though he favored Italian opera, he would have little to do with Italian musicians. "The Italians never come on time," Merola would grumble. "Give me the Germans. They are prompt, orderly, reliable." One of the most prompt, orderly and reliable "Germans" was Kurt Adler. A Viennese immigrant, Adler reached San Francisco as chorus director in 1943, after five years...