Word: mario
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smeared all over the Italian press was a series of "re-examinations," to which readers responded with enthusiastic letters. "He was shy, notwithstanding all his arrogance," wrote ex-Editor Mario Missiroli, of the weekly Epoca. Concluded Domenico Bartoli, of Milan's Corriere della Sera: "His intuition in evaluating the weakness of his adversaries was penetrating and exact." Paolo Rossi, vice president of the Chamber of Deputies, went further. "One must admit," said he, "that Mussolini's conqueror's march [on Rome, when he took power from Victor Emmanuel III in 1922], considered as an art work...
Supercharged. At the first offstage sound of her voice calling for her paramour, "Mario! Mario!", a wave of expectant murmuring swept the galleries...
...jealous lover, and Callas played the part with pantherish intensity, purring innocently one moment, spitting hellfire the next. In the second-act encounter with the lecherous police chief Scarpia, splendidly portrayed by Baritone Tito Gobbi, Callas was at her supercharged best. When the soldiers carried off her Mario, they nearly buckled under her pummeling. She lurched desperately about the stage fending off Scarpia's advances, then in a violent flash drove a knife into his heart. Callas and Gobbi treated the Met to one of the best-acted performances it has seen in many a year...
...instrument of luscious quality, her soprano last week was a thin and often wobbly echo of the voice that fled the Met in 1958. Her high notes were shrill and achingly insecure, and seemed all the more so by contrast with the rich, ringing tenor of Franco Corelli as Mario. In the poignant Vissi d'Arte aria, Callas relied almost wholly on dramatic rather than vocal brilliance to carry her through-which, in her case, is admittedly a compelling compromise. The audience certainly thought so. At the curtain, a shower of roses and confetti rained down from the galleries...
...lever back of it is civil rights; by combining idealism, emotional appeal, techniques, and proof that students can act effectively, this cause has lifted students out of their silent-generation apathy of the late '50s. Students from Yale, Harvard and Princeton were well represented at Selma last week; Mario Savio, the original free-speech leader at Berkeley, showed up too. And a healthy thing it is, insists St. John's Sociology Professor William Osborne: "This generation of students has what other generations have lacked-a holy discontent, courage, and the willingness to sacrifice...