Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weakening of the Italian Department continued this month with the resignation of a newly-appointed instructor, and the expiration of the terms of another instructor and a visiting lecturer, it was learned yesterday. The Department will lose its most distinguished member, Charles S. Singleton, professor of Italian, at the end of the month...
Scientists of nations without atomic weapons are almost unanimously opposed to large-scale testing. Italian scientists, from Roman Catholics to Communists, agree that too little is known to justify taking risks with the world's health. Most German scientists feel the same way. The Japanese, who get fallout from both east and west, are especially emphatic. They believe that fission products now in the stratosphere may be dangerous already and will surely become so unless the testing is stopped. Says Physicist Mitsuo Taketani of Rikkyo University: "The U.S. and the U.S.S.R. are not testing now. They are conducting nuclear...
Richard Wagner had a low opinion of Italian music (in Die Meistersinger, Hans Sachs stirringly denounces "Latin vapours and flummery"), but approved of Italian music lovers when they cheered his own work. Last week the Italians were cheering again, having staged what may well be one of the finest Wagner productions of the decade...
Rodzinski has conducted Tristan more than 40 times, spent weeks before the Florence rehearsals restudying the score. He drilled his temperamental Italian orchestra mercilessly, rehearsed his cast, chorus and orchestra from 9 a.m. till midnight. Ruthlessly he excised musical sentimentalities, toned down the deathbed exuberance of handsome Tenor Windgassen ("You're practically dead. You can hardly talk, let alone sing"). On opening night last week, a big share of the applause went to Soprano Nilsson, who was compared to the great Kirsten Flagstad. But the star of the occasion was Rodzinski himself. Perched on a high stool...
Trees Behind the Church. The letters show Joyce as a man drunk on language. He had the gift of tongues (just for fun, he dashed off translations of a poem by James Stephens in German, Latin, Norwegian, Italian and French). His view of himself was generally rueful, whether he was commenting on his physical "cowardice" or remarking on his "steely cheerfulness in what does not afflict me personally." He read hugely, but at times with so little discrimination that his head felt full of "pebbles and rubbish and broken matches and lots of glass picked up 'most everywhere...