Word: milan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Wherever Father Lombardi goes, the crowds turn out. In Milan and Palermo, crowds of 120,000 to 140,000 have stood in awestruck silence to hear him. When Communists are sent to heckle him-to "burst the bubble of Father Lombardi"-they often find themselves unable to speak; sometimes they are moved even to renounce their political faith. And Italians who have remained cynically on the political sidelines are stirred by this unpretentious priest as no one has stirred them since Saint Francis of Assisi...
...pulled into Hendaye station. And there the glistening blue cars sat for four hours, caught in a snarl of bureaucratic red tape. Paris had forgotten to order the Hendaye station master to let the train through, and he liked to have his orders. Sixty of the passengers, members of Milan's La Scala Opera, volubly wondered if they would get to Lisbon in time for their performance of Rigoletto. Paris finally sent "a thousand regrets," and the express rolled...
...concert tour of Italy and Holland. A shy fellow, but sure of himself, Britten wasn't worried about how Peter Grimes would fare in Manhattan. Since London first heard Peter Grimes at Sadler's Wells in June 1945, it has been cheered 115 times, in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Milan, Berlin, Budapest, translated into eight languages, and praised in all of them...
...train from Rome to Milan sallow, soft-voiced Communist Leader Fausto Gullo could only get an upper berth. A young fellow traveler respectfully offered his lower berth to the former Minister of Justice. But Gullo said: "It's my fault for not having booked early enough. I was late. I'm grateful, but really, one should pay for being late...
This eager mea culpa mood pervaded the entire congress which last week in Milan assembled almost 3,000 Communist delegates from eleven nations. Technically, it was the Sixth National Congress of the Italian Communist Party, but influential guests came from Russia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, France, Britain and Uruguay...