Word: gian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Here we are, back to the War of the Roses," muttered an angry Gian Carlo Menotti, 55. His ninth annual Festival of Two Worlds had just opened in Spoleto, and police were threatening to ban performances of the bare-breasted Sierra Leone dance troupe unless they covered "the rose of the nipple." "I don't know how to cover only the nipple," sighed Dance Director John J. Akar. He did his best with scarves and plastic roses, but the scarves fell and the petals peeled. At week's end, Akar was ready to try adhesive disks, but Menotti...
...embracing the orchestra with grand sweeping gestures of his long arms. His attack was marked by an easy, graceful masculinity, at times almost overpowering in its intensity. Conductor of the Lyon State Opera since 1963, he is the most experienced of the four winners. One of the judges, Composer Gian Carlo Menotti, announced that he had invited Lombard to guest-conduct at the Spoleto Festival this summer, a bonus prize to be awarded on a regular basis to future winners of the contest...
...Hickory Hill seminars, and once, fully dressed, he slipped or was pushed (the record does not show which) into Bobby's pool. He seemed to know everybody-actresses and artists, poets and politicians-and if Kennedy wanted to meet, say, British Philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin or Composer Gian Carlo Menotti, Schlesinger could, and did, arrange it. He was the connoisseur on art and literature, movies and martinis, and he served as the Administration's bridge to the intellectual community. He savored the pleasures and perquisites of power with zest...
HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m. nationwide; WNBC-TV in New York, 3:30-4:30 p.m.). Burr Tilstrom and his Kuklapolitans host Gian Carlo Menotti's Christmas opera, Amah] and the Night Visitors...
...asides ("I'll have her yet!"), which were accepted on the stage for decades, nor in a Joycean stream of consciousness, which is accepted today. People do not mumble their disgust with the universe while sitting in ashcans, as do the characters of Samuel Beckett. Nor, Composer Gian Carlo Menotti has pointed out, do they have faces half a block wide, as they do on movie screens. In short, the complaint that an art form is unrealistic is the poorest and squarest of arguments...