Word: libera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...AMGOT Libera Nos. But the A.M.G. was worried by the threat of leftist revolution. While it approved C.N.L. local administrations, it frowned on the taking over of factories. It threatened to cut off supplies of coal and other desperately needed raw materials if its wishes were not obeyed...
...Italy-chafed. U.S. and British policy had never seemed more out of touch with popular feeling. U.S. and British prestige had never seemed so low. Reported London's New Statesman & Nation: "Already a year ago the people were singing in the churches of southern Italy: "Et ab AMGOT libera nos, Domine-And from AMGOT deliver us, O Lord...
...Puccini's Manon Lescaut at the City Center Opera, the Italian operatic grapevine registered a medium-sized tremor. When she topped that with a striking performance of the far more exacting role of Violetta in Traviata, it began to sprout melodious expletives. The coloratura of her Sempre libera was passionate, accurate, brilliant. She was undoubtedly a rarity: a lyric soprano with dramatic oomph and coloratura glitter, the best Violetta heard in Manhattan since the late, great Claudia Muzio...
King Vittorlo Emanuele of Italy, according to the weekly Italia Libera, was asked what pained him most when he had to leave Rome. Mourned he: "Having to leave my collection of coins...
...parties still have their differences, but they have agreed on at least two aims: nationalization of heavy industry, and a democratic state to succeed Mussolini's Fascist state. Said the liberal party's newspaper Italia Libera: "Although our ultimate goals differ, there is a long road along which we shall travel together...