Word: italian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pierre Trudeau, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Italian Premier Giulio Andreotti. A notable absentee: French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who boycotted the dinner. Reason: he was piqued that British Laborite Roy Jenkins had been invited to both Callaghan's dinner and some of the summit sessions in his capacity as president of the European Community's Brussels-based commission. Like his predecessors, Giscard is determined to keep the Common Market and its representatives from getting too uppity...
...Italian ancestry, most with roots in Sicily. Of course, the nationwide number of mobsters involved in organized crime is far higher and knows no ethnic limits. Rednecks dominate the Georgia underworld. Blacks and Hispanics run most of the rackets in their neighborhoods. Jews, Greeks, Chinese and Irish Americans all help swell the totals...
Then why does the Mafia attract so much attention? Many Italian Americans complain that the notoriety is excessive, and damaging to millions of law-abiding citizens; to assuage their sensibilities, the Justice Department has stopped referring to the Mafia by name. No matter what the organization is called, it dominates much of American crime. Many nonmember gangsters are allied to it, usually kicking back a share of their take to the dons; some criminologists estimate that at least 50,000 hoods can be considered confederates of the Mafia. The Mafia is by far the best organized criminal group...
...today's public seems to accept today's tenors, Italian and otherwise. Pavarotti and Domingo thrill audiences the world over with what once would be considered dull singing, a trend that confirms my suspicion of a steady decline in operatic sensibilities. This decline may have started at roughly the same time that Opera began to die as an art form: something which occurred after the death of Puccini and before that of Benjamin Britten. We are now an artistically starved audience, looking at the operatic stage not as an expression of contemporary life, but as a musical museum, where singers...
...Boston Camerata, directed by Joel Cohen, will present Cupid Victorius, music of the Italian Renaissance, in Sanders Theatre at 8:30 pm. The concert will include music by Cipriano, Marenzio, Gesualdo and Gestoldi and readings of Italian love poetry by Nicholas Linfield of the Boston Lunchtime Theatre. Tickets are $5 and $3.50 at the Jordan Hall Box Office and at Strawberries II in Cambridge but rush tickets, at the door only, are available for $1.50. For more information call...