Word: milan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fear still flickered through Italy on the morning after the election. Bologna, the Red capital, seemed like a dead city, its medieval porticos empty, its gleaming pastry shops deserted. In Milan's Cathedral Square, 25,000 Communist partisans staged a demonstration (despite a government ban) ; they were dispersed by police, who fired machine guns into the air, and by a timely rainstorm. One policeman was killed. But beaming Minister of the Interior Mario Scelba was sure that his security forces could maintain order...
...large, Italians conducted democracy's most vital business, in a holiday spirit tempered by dignity and humor. In Milan, Contessa Castelbarco, Toscanini's eldest daughter Wally (see Music), was the first voter at her polling place in a schoolroom. The lone Communist member of the election board unctuously escorted her out, thanked her for voting. "Thank you," she replied sweetly. "But are you the host...
Ideas & Ideals. But all the bravos in South America and in Turin, where he conducted next, couldn't have kept Toscanini from a job he had his eye on. With his cello under his arm, he scurried to Milan to join the orchestra-as second cellist-that was preparing the premiere of Verdi's new opera, Otello...
Scrupulously honest, he detects sham of all kinds instantly. Years ago, after Richard Strauss had asked him to conduct the first performance of his Salome, then gave it to another conductor, Toscanini went all the way from Milan to Vienna to tell him, "Strauss, as a musician I take my hat off to you; as a man [Toscanini here went through a furious pantomime of a man clomping on hats repeatedly] I put on twelve hats...
...Reds last week were engaged in limited violence. Near Milan, a Red "punitive expedition" went fascist-hunting, ran into a farmer with a gun who killed two of the Communists; at Savona, a shoeshine man tossed a hand grenade into a crowd of churchgoers, killed an old woman; on Pantelleria Island, when a Communist-led crowd stormed the tax collector's office, police killed three men in the melee. Police found numerous Communist arms caches...