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Sentiment & Flair. Much of the credit for San Francisco's success goes to Vienna-born General Director Kurt Herbert Adler, 52, who took over the company three years ago, after the death of Impresario Gaetano Merola. A sentimental Neapolitan, Merola had built up the company and fenced it in with a traditional repertory. But Adler inherited not only a flourishing company but a sophisticated audience ready for new and different opera...
...minutes ticked by, the prayers became less formal, for Neapolitans consider their patron almost a member of the family. "Come on, guappone [Neapolitan for hoodlum] . . . Cheer up, don't look so green around the gills . . ." Back in the sweating, shoving crowd a man waved a ragged arm, shouted: "Come on, yellow face, come on, lemon face!" At 9:28 the dark substance in one of the slowly turning vials began to slide along the glass, then dissolved and spurted about the container. "Miracolo! Miracolo!" cried a man in the crowd...
Skeptics have long theorized and polemicized about the phenomenon without producing a fully convincing natural explanation.* Many Popes have accepted the liquefaction as a miracle, but the church has not acknowledged it officially. Summing up the attitude of his city, one Neapolitan said quietly last week: "Let the poor of Naples have their miracle...
...political strength in southern Italy. He accused the government of "throwing mud at the fair city of Naples," scoffed at the possibility of a "few missing millions," and cried: "Rome is trying to make an assault landing in the territorial waters of Naples." Said a Lauro aide: "Every real Neapolitan can only admire the way we operate...
...Literally meaning "haughty," guappo is used in Neapolitan argot to denote a petty big shot, found its way into American slang in the early days of the melting pot as the uncomplimentary term...