Word: giovanni
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...onstage or with an orchestra before," said Soprano Roberta Peters, 45, recalling her Metropolitan Opera debut 25 years ago. A Met understudy back then and the daughter of a shoe salesman, Peters had been called to duty when Nadine Connor fell ill hours before a scheduled performance in Don Giovanni. Last week, between acts of her 303rd Met performance (in Cost fan Tutte), Peters accepted a silver anniversary bowl from Met Board President William Rockefeller. The "little girl from The Bronx," she observed happily, "had really made...
...received politely wherever they went. He had chats of roughly half an hour each with British Prime Minister Harold Wilson (whom Wallace adjudged "a fine gentleman"); Tory Party Leader Margaret Thatcher ("a lovely talk with a lovely lady"); Belgian Prime Minister Leo Tindemans; Italian Premier Aldo Moro and President Giovanni Leone ("I said I recognized the contribution Italy has made to society in general, especially in our country"). But Wallace could not get an audience with Pope Paul...
...Imamu Baraka, has used the same ideas more mysteriously and senuously--the love he evokes could hold men and women, while Giovanni's amounts to idle chatter...
...GIOVANNI probed the relationships between men and women in a book of prose pieces called Gemini, too. This writer's thoughts seldom take to much studied analysis--whatever form she arranges them in--but her prose tends to flaunt a certain intrigue that the poems fall shy of. Why, she groans, don't black men assert any control over white men? They're being dogged by death anyway, so they can't be anxious about dying. She figures they don't want white men mad at them. White women seek equality first and then follow the example of black...
According to this poet, "To be black, is to be very hot. The age of the cool went out when honkies learned to say dig' with their eyelids lowered." Well, you don't burn, Giovanni...