Word: mondo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such old and new operas as Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona and Prokofiev's The Duenna (TIME, June 14, 1948), was scratching his head for a surprise for his 1949 season. A friend told him about Haydn's 172-year-old dramma giocoso II Mondo della Luna (The World of the Moon), wherein a charlatan astronomer and some frolicsome servants persuade a fat, foolish father to bless the marriage of his daughter to a poet by taking him on a trip to the moon. It sounded like fun, but the first problem was to find the score...
...best Italian refugee and Italian-American brains in the U.S. last week launched in New York City a new anti-Fascist paper, Il Mondo ("An Italian Daily with American Ideals"). Even as it appeared, democracy won a dramatic victory over Fascism in the U.S. Italian-language press...
...main purpose of Il Mondo was to undercut the biggest two Italian dailies of the U.S., Il Progresso Italo-Americana and Correire d'America, owned by New York sand and gravel Tycoon Generoso Pope. For Publisher Pope has often been accused of hobnobbing with Fascist bigshots, of employing Fascists on his editorial staffs, of printing pro-American editorials in English and pro-Mussolini editorials in Italian...
...very day that Il Mondo appeared, the New York Post published on its front page an interview in which Generoso Pope declared: "The quicker Hitler and the Axis powers are destroyed the better off the world will be. And when I say Axis powers that includes Mussolini...
Last week Il Mondo, disbelieving Generoso Pope's "newfound loyalty," challenged him to print his denunciation of Mussolini in his own papers in Italian. A couple of days later...