Word: giovannis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...provincial French opera of Mulhouse, Alsace. Her voice was heard in a few more second-string opera houses-Cannes, Vichy, La Baule-and, still unknown in France, pricked the ears of a couple of tourists. They were Maria Gay, an oldtime opera singer, and her husband Giovanni Zenatello. They took up the innocent Lily, promised her an audition at the Metropolitan. Within a few months Lily Pons was taking 16 Metropolitan curtain calls in Lucia, 30 a few nights later in Rigoletto. Later the Zenatellos sued for the right to manage her, take 15% of her earnings, lost their case...
...Albania, to improve the shattered discipline of the routed, retreating Blackshirts, hurried fierce, sporting Achille Starace, former Secretary of the Fascist Party, now chief of the Fascist Militia. Mussolini's mouthpiece, Giovanni Ansaldo, took pains to announce over the radio: "We must win the war in the Mediterranean with our own Army, quite alone." Crown Prince Umberto himself condoned with the families of the first victims of the Greeks...
Looking on and loving it were: plump, pleasant Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman of New York; bland, swart Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Pius XII's Apostolic Delegate to the U. S. They were glad to see priests adept at quick comebacks. Said Delegate Cicognani: "The apostles preached in this way. . . . It was in the streets that Our Lord met those who were in bad need...
What I said last week about Mozart and classicism is exemplified perfectly in two of Columbia's November record releases. One of them is the overture to Don Giovanni. This is that famous overture which Mozart wrote the night before the first performance of the opera, while his wife fed him coffee to keep him awake. Listen to the overture, played superbly by Beecham and the London Philharmonic, and I think you will agree that there is something here more than the mere notes; the notes, lovely as they are, serve as a container, a melodic bowl, into which well...
Wilson finds the starting point of socialist historical thinking in a little-known book-Principles of a New Science Dealing with the Nature of Nations, Through Which Are Shown Also New Principles of the Natural Law of Peoples. The author was an obscure, cranky, 18th-Century Neapolitan, Giovanni Battista Vico. Vico had read Francis Bacon. He decided that it was possible to apply to the study of human history the scientific methods Bacon applied to nature. Hitherto history had been written in terms of the lives of great men, as a chronicle of unusual events, as a show directed...