Word: messaggero
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rome Opera House celebrated the centenary of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, but Rome found it a masterpiece of contemporary social realism. "Poveri negri!" (Poor Negroes), enthusiasts shouted from the balconies, and next morning the Rome press chimed in. "A great opera and a great story," said II Messaggero. "The fight for freedom belongs to eternity, and where could it be better fought than on the stage of the Rome Opera House...
Sophia Loren's absence from last week's Academy Award ceremonies was unvarnished nervousness. The Hollywood correspondent of Rome's Il Messaggero had written a convincing argument that the "xenophobes" of Hollywood were not about to ''dig their graves with their own hands" by honoring furriners. Sophia canceled her plane reservations at the last moment, feeling too overwrought to fly halfway round the world to play the gracious loser...
...news generated a small whirlwind of sanguine speculation-especially in Italy, where it broke on All Saints' Day, when the Vatican's offices and its newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, were closed. Rome's Giornale d'ltalia hailed the meeting as "the Christian summit"; Il Messaggero called it a "sign of Christian reconciliation on the plane of common spiritual defense." The Vatican quickly slapped down such exuberance; L'Osservatore Romano brushed off the news with a small...
...airport, and praised for his demeanor by newspapers that had originally criticized his visit. It was the turn of the Italian Communist press, which had trumpeted his tour, to realize that the tour had badly misfired and angered Italian pride. Khrushchev, said Rome's conservative Il Messaggero bitterly, obviously looks upon Italy as "a country of beggars and singers...