Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accorded her-the opportunity to open the Met season. In the title role of Tosca, opposite Mario Del Monaco as Cavaradossi and George London as Scarpia, she looked statuesquely handsome in velvet gown and jeweled tiara, was more than ever the creature of low-banked passion whom an Italian colleague calls a "diva serena...
Besides these issues, Furcolo has other advantages working for him. Of Italian and Irish extraction, the Yale-educated ('33) Governor with a large family has a common-man appeal which Gibbons has not had time to build up. He amassed the largest vote ever given to a Democratic gubernatorial candidate in the last primary and defeated a popular Lieutenant Governor in a year in which Eisenhower was sweeping the state. Gibbons is running hard and has made gains--notably in the western part of the state--but at this stage of the game it doesn't look...
Neither had any comment on the current feeling that Pope John XXIII was the product of a compromise within the conclave, and Dawson predicted that the full story would not come out for days. Dawson added that he never expected a non-Italian Pope to be instated. Four hundred years is too big a precedent to break, he said...
Pasternak's work was recently denounced by Pravda and its author was advised to refuse the proffered award. There has been no official Soviet exhortation that the writer denounce the novel himself, as he was nearly pressured into doing in a letter to an Italian publisher several years ago, when the book was first set up to be printed...
...prelude to the start of scheduled commercial flights between New York and Paris this week, and between New York and London Nov. 16. Still up in the air are flights to Rome. Though Rome last week gave technical clearance to the 707s to operate from Ciampino Airport, the Italian government has so far refused "political" clearance, may force Pan Am to fly its jet passengers from Paris to Rome in prop planes until the clearance comes through...