Word: milan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mingled enchantment and ennui. Done with trying to make sense of life-or even of a play-Shakespeare pitched upon a strange island world almost outside geography. There, while his playwriting became a tangled, stunted vine, his poetry blazed like a burning bush. There Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan, tended his daughter Miranda, shipwrecked his enemies by waving his magic wand, ruled over the spirit Ariel, all speed and light, and the monster Caliban, that "freckled whelp hag-born." There also the shipwrecked men tediously conspired and caroused. When, at the last - his enemies forgiven, Ariel and Caliban...
Puccini: The Heart of La Bohème (Orchestra of Milan's La Scala Opera, Umberto Berrettoni conducting, with Beniamino Gigli, Licia Albanese and others; Victor; 10 sides). An anthology containing practically all the brightest blossoms of Puccini's most popular opera, selected from Victor's previously released complete recording. The cast is brilliant, the singing rich in the best garlicky Italian tradition. Recording: good...
Fortnight ago Cantachiaro dug its spurs into a Benito Mussolini speech, delivered in Milan. Headlines and acetous comments derided the ex-Duce as "delirious ... a Nero who fiddled all Italy into ashes," and his followers as "scum in an advanced state of decay." Explained Editor Monicelli: "We offer the complete text [of Mussolini's speech] to our readers with the wish that . . . the last remains of this tragic buffoonery . . . should be swept away...
...open to him was to withdraw his small army successfully to the fierce crags of the Dolomites, which form a better defense line than any he has held heretofore. There, on the frontier, he should be able to keep General Sir Harold Alexander from penetrating into Austria. But then Milan, Turin, Genoa, the whole Po Valley would have to be abandoned. And the war in Italy would be over...
...Dumini 1) had carried out an assault on Misuri [Deputy Alfred Misuri], 2) had worked in France, 3) had recently assaulted Forni [Deputy Cesare Forni] in a station at Milan with Mussolini's knowledge and connivance...