Word: luigi
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...national poll last month showed 75% of respondents opposing further immigration. Many Italians, citing their traditions of tolerance, say they are shocked at the rise of anti-foreign feelings. But, insists the Rev. Luigi di Liegro, head of the Caritas charity in Rome, "racism is the same everywhere. It just takes shape differently in different cultures...
...drift, a crisis of faith in the future and a fading sense of national identity? An identity crisis -- in France? It sounds as unlikely as the notion of Cyrano de Bergerac fumbling his sword or groping for the mot juste. In his 1983 book The Europeans, the Italian journalist Luigi Barzini, a seasoned and mordant observer of the Continental scene, cites Edmond Rostand's fictional Cyrano as the quintessence of French character, at least as outsiders exaggerate it: the boastful, cocksure Gascon whose fellow provincials are defined in Rostand's play as "free fighters, free lovers, free spenders, defenders...
Incidentally, I would love for Ms. Gleason to define for the more theatrically ignorant of her readers what exactly a Pirandellian "staging" is. Enquiring and incredulous minds want to know. It is true that the plays of Luigi Pirandello did indeed "draw attention to the artificial nature of theater," but only in their content, not in their "staging." Furthermore, I'd like to point out to Ms. Gleason that although a group of people dressed in black who move furniture on stage might to the untrained eye resemble a "tech crew," these people may indeed be cleverly disguised actors...
There were times when the opening-night production, designed and directed in monumental style by Pier Luigi Pizzi, flirted dangerously with catastrophe. At one point, for example, materials fell from the overhead flies, causing the corpse of Hector to bring one hand protectively to his face. But the magnitude of the evening's triumph should not be underestimated. At a single stroke, it has made the reputation of Chung, up until now probably best known as the younger brother of violinist Kyung-Wha Chung. Against all odds, he assembled a cast whose only prominent members were sopranos Grace Bumbry (Cassandra...
Empire? Even when we do invade, whether it is Normandy or Panama, the first question to arise is always, When do we get out? Luigi Barzini once observed that for America interventionism is often just an expression of "impatient isolationism," wanting to get the job over with and back to, "in the words of Theodore Roosevelt (who deplored it vigorously), 'the soft and easy enjoyment of material comforts...