Word: italian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swung its spotlight on red-shirted Garibaldini squads in the region of Lecce, on a "liberty brigade" in Bari, on a Verona clothes factory commissioned to make military-style berets. Then the paper brought off a small coup: it ran a letter from the grandson and namesake of the Italian liberator himself. Mourned grandson Giuseppe Garibaldi: ". . .There is no law in Italy to protect . . . the portrait and name of my grandfather . . . [from being] made to represent parties which are the very negation of Garibaldian traditions of liberty...
...soggy chorus would need a shot in the arm to handle some of the rounds, which sound like sea chanties and are as complex as a Bach fugue. Singers found themselves singing one duet written in different keys. There were none of the arias that most Italian operas hand out like a free lunch-but the audience would find at least a few things...
...English idiom was new, at first forbidding and finally fascinating. Said white-haired, Russian-born Conductor Emil Cooper, who will conduct the first performance of Grimes: "For 40 years I am a conductor, but I do not know English opera before. There is no difficulty in doing Italian opera; when you start you know what you are doing. French and German the same. This is somehow different . . . the rhythms and inflections of English speech which Britten gets into his music. . . . But I am excited...
This Oriental splendiferousness is extremely expensive. A newly formed Italian-American krewe spent $50,000 for this year's ball; the cost of all 49 would total half a million dollars. Supper parties for 49 carnival queens-one of whom wore a costume worth $3,500-would come to another $350,000. Merchants guessed that New Orleans women would spend three or four million dollars for clothes and trips to beauty parlors...
...Live in Peace. A fine Italian-made film endorsing the brotherhood of man (TIME...