Word: giulio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Giulio Confalonieri, critic of Il Tempo, came armed with a shrill whistle. He also brought along seven friends, similarly equipped. The curtain was barely up when they cut loose. From there on, through three acts, it was bedlam...
Operatic Home. Manhattan Banker (and Met Angel) Otto Kahn discovered her in 1929. After hearing her sing Tosca in Oslo, he told Met Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza that she was a singer to watch. Before Gatti got around to taking this advice, Flagstad accepted a bid from Bayreuth. It was the first time she had sung outside of Scandinavia. Says she: "I was quite happy where I was. I was never ambitious. Always I wanted to be a private person...
...chief reason for the Met's enthusiasm for its new manager is his own crisp air of enthusiasm. After 27 years of the autocratic rule of Giulio Gatti-Casazza and 15 years of worries and wartime headaches under Edward Johnson, the old Metropolitan has suddenly become, as one tenor put it, "a happy house...
...scientist's brain was as good as ever. In 1948 he became nationally known as co-discoverer (with Dr. Giulio Lattes) of the man-made meson, a basic atomic particle produced by the 184-inch cyclotron at the University of California (TIME, March 15, 1948). About the same time his disease was finally diagnosed correctly as berylliosis (beryllium poisoning...
...yards off, Foreman Giuseppe Tigano, who had left the Communist Party because he is one of the few believers in the Sila Project, was arguing heatedly with Michele Verardi. Tigano had ordered a gang to cut through a garden which Verardi rents from Baron Giulio Berlin-gieri. On the map (and all old inhabitants of Santa Severina confirmed this) a municipal road once ran through the garden. Through the years, Landlord Berlingieri's tenants had advanced little by little onto the road so that it gradually became part of the baronial property...