Word: giovannis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Playwright George Bernard Shaw knew the truth: though the theater could be proved logically to be more real than opera, he wrote, "the facts are just the other way-the superior intensity of musical expression making the opera far more real than the play." In Mozart's Don Giovanni, probably the greatest opera ever written, the Don, to judge from the text alone, could be just a playboy or an obsessive lecher. What gives him nobility and heroism, what defines him as not simply a lecher but a rebel against God, is Mozart's music. "An F-sharp...
Balance & Consensus. Prot�g� of the austere Pius XII, close friend of the jovial John XXIII, Giovanni Battista Montim in the third year of his pontificate has slowly emerged from the shadow of his great predecessors with a style and program all his own. John was an intuitive, charismatic prophet who threw open the windows and doors of the church to let in fresh air without worrying about?or even fully understanding?the consequences. By contrast, Paul is a detached and painstakingly analytical technician who has left the windows open?but who keeps checking the thermometer lest any cold drafts...
American bishops are traditionally better known for their building programs than for their theological skills. Cody is no exception. Son of a St. Louis fireman, he graduated in 1932 from the North American College, traditional breeding ground of bishops. For five years he worked with Giovanni Battista Montini, now Pope Paul VI, as one of the Vatican's assistant secretaries of state. Cody served seven years as an auxiliary bishop in St. Louis and became Bishop of Kansas City St. Joseph in 1956. There he earned a reputation as a tough-minded organization man who could raise...
...Ecumenical Council. Her ef forts to seduce him succeed only after a daring striptease before the keyhole of his connecting room and a final confrontation at a distant rendezvous, where she awaits him gingerly clutching a bed sheet. This week a Roman magistrate will hale Gina, along with Producer Giovanni Lucari, into court to answer charges of violating Article 528 of the penal code, banning immoral exhibitions...
Thus began one of the most spectacular murder trials in Italian history. Starting last January, it took 57 hearings and 300 hours of juicy testimony. Witnesses from Egypt, the Sudan, Lebanon and Switzerland babbled in six languages. Claire shrieked obscenities in Arabic, jolting her lawyer, ex-Italian Premier Giovanni Leone. One witness recoiled from facing Claire, and the court traveled to Hamburg to interview...