Word: lotti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paradoxically, the chilling anger of The Visit springs from the fertile, unangry mind of a bulky (230 Ibs.), cigar-smoking Swiss burgher with the tastes of a bon vivant, the genial manner of a retired cook. Surrounded by his wife Lotti (once an actress), three children, four dogs and seven cats, 37-year-old Friedrich Düurren-matt churns out his bitter plays from a picture-postcard villa in the green woods overlooking Lake Neuchatel...
...characteristically effective oratory flowed like lava across the big crowd in Trieste's Valmaura sports stadium. As he spoke, the hot sun beat down on him. Suddenly, after 45 minutes of his harangue, Togliatti gasped and slid heavily into a nearby chair. His secretary and girl friend, Leonilde lotti, handed him an aspirin tablet: Togliatti swallowed it, then stood up, apologized for "my slight indisposition" and finished his speech in a few minutes...
...Friday night, the Harvard Glee Club reaffirmed its position as one of the foremost college choruses in the country. Lotti's Crucifixus was rendered with impeccable diction and great emotional intensity. Mr. Woodworth distinguished carefully between flowing counter-point and contrasting chant-like sections, and he never permitted the tempo to lag. After this elegant bow to the Baroque a selection from Berlioz' Damnation of Faust did not fare so well. The attacks were often uncertain, and the singers almost shouted some of the high notes. A lack of preparation was apparent in some nearly disastrous mistakes and the frantic...
...Harvard Glee Club will sing selections by Bach, Lotti, and Berlioz, and a group of Welsh and Italian folk songs and choruses from Gilbert and Sullivan arranged by Archibald T. Davison...
...their son Aldo, 26, and Palmiro moved out to a smart suburban villa in Rome. Last week they got a legal separation, which, however, does not permit them to remarry. Rumor said Togliatti might get a divorce outside Italy. The other woman: his personal secretary, buxom Communist Deputy Leonilde lotti, 31, with whom he has been keeping steady company for several years...