Word: lanza
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inspiration for this attitude does not come directly from Christ but from the patron saint of modern India, Mohandas Gandhi. "Nowhere have I encountered a political, social, economic and practical doctrine which in my opinion conforms more to Christ's teachings than Gandhi's," says Joseph Lanza del Vasto, 61, the white-bearded, mystical founder and patriarch...
From time to time, some richly imaginative columnist likens Club Singer Enzo Stuarti to the late Mario Lanza. But the comparison is fair to neither man. Lanza had a voice of genuine operatic dimensions, and he misused it sadly. Stuarti has a voice of cocktails-and-dancing dimensions, and he makes the most...
With the aid of electronic amplification, it has a vibrant power reminiscent less of Lanza than of Tony Bennett...
Only the formula is Lanza's-a mixture of show tunes, sentimental Italian love songs and an occasional operatic aria. At Luigi's nightclub in Atlantic City last week, Stuarti was first heard as an offstage voice throbbing out Yours Is My Heart Alone; by the time he sailed into the last bars he was standing in a lavender spot, stage center, teeth gleaming to the glow of applause. After that, in a handsome dramatic-tenor voice, Stuarti worked through such standards as If Ever I Would Leave You, Arrivederci, Roma, Sorrento, Three Coins in the Fountain...
...ship before he settled down to a diet of slim pickings on Broadway-supporting roles and choruses. He had no better luck touring small nightclubs and occasionally appearing on television. He seemed to hit bottom in 1960 when he recorded a slow-selling album titled A Tribute to Mario Lanza, with his own name printed in minuscule letters across the bottom of the jacket. Stuarti's rising fortunes, as a matter of fact, can be measured by that very same album: now that he is a nightclub success, it has sold 150,000 copies in five printings, each...