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Curtin has premiered more operas than any other American soprano. Her career has included frequent appearances with the New York Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera and Milan's La Scala Opera Company...
Sofu's Sogetsu (Grass Moon) school not only has a multifoliate following (more than a million dues-paying members) in Japan but has won converts and mounted shows from Moscow to Milan, Manhattan to Paris (where Sofu was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor). Last week in Tokyo he formally opened his school's eleven-story headquarters building, designed by Japanese Architect Kenzo Tange. It overlooks the palace of Crown Prince Akihito, whose family has traditionally been a patron of the flower...
Sofu is not so much an iconoclast as a breath of Blue Wind in Japan's traditionally hermetic culture. He is an accomplished painter, in both Oriental and Occidental styles. His spiny wooden and metal sculptures have been exhibited in New York, Milan and Paris. He is considered by some to be among his country's finest calligraphers. The ikebana that the Grass Moon master teaches and practices appeals to modern Japanese-and Westerners-for whom visual impact is more important than spiritual complexities...
Campus ferment reached its climax last spring in widespread leftist-led student protests over bleak job prospects for new graduates and chronically overcrowded classrooms. At Milan University young "proletarian committees" brought teaching to a standstill, destroyed books and scientific instruments. At Bocconi University, a Milan business school, three masked urban guerrillas destroyed the computer center. In Bologna, a 25-year-old medical student was shot dead by police during a youth rampage in a 20-block commercial district near the campus, and his death triggered more bloody riots in Rome...
...svelte, it was only because she dieted away 70 Ibs. fairly early in her career-losing with them, perhaps, some of the richness of her voice. Shortly after World War II, when she was on the verge of fame as a singer in Verona and Venice and finally Milan, she weighed so much (more than 200 Ibs. at one point) that she refused to sing Madama Butterfly simply because she felt she looked ridiculous for the part...