Word: nino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Music Department, Nino Pirrotta, Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music, Emeritus, is tracing Italian musical practice from Dante's to Bembo's times...
...salesman, has been claquing evenings for ten years. Alabisio was a top La Scala tenor under Toscanini in the 1920s. Their basic claque (which they can beef up to 40 on important evenings) includes singing students, teachers, music lovers and two barbers. Perhaps the most dedicated is Claqueur Nino Grassi, 60, who has clapped professionally at La Scala since he was ten years old. Carrara and Alabisio attend every La Scala dress rehearsal, talk to the leading singers to find out if they want applause at unexpected places, finally discuss the completed applause script with the conductor to make sure...
...Road. Whatever the pros and cons of the big-city selections, the guides do an ambitious job on the road and in smaller towns, where they list not a single five-star restaurant but a number of four-starrers, such as La Crémaillère and Nino's in Bedford Village, N.Y.; The Lodge at Smuggler's Notch in Stowe, Vt; LaDoña Luz in Taos, N.Mex.; and the vastly overrated Stonehenge in Ridgefield, Conn...
...that a fresh, uncommitted exile army was somewhere in the Caribbean, and that a new landing was on the way. Evidence indicated that it was a phantom army; the only force of any size left intact was a 167-man commando outfit led by an ex-Castro aide, Captain Nino Diaz. On invasion day, Diaz opened his sealed orders en route to Cuba, saw that the CIA plan called for a diversionary landing at an unfamiliar spot in Camaguey province instead of Oriente province, a region that Diaz knew well. Disgusted, Diaz turned back to Florida with...
...Santo Nino's farm-to-market road is part of a quiet revolution in the Philippines' 24,000 rural villages. Bureaucratically known as PACD (for office of the Presidential Assistant on Community Development) and financed by the U.S. International Cooperation Administration and the Philippine government, the four-year-old village-improvement program shines out in startling contrast to the grubby corruption that has come to dominate Philippine public life once again under the regime of indulgent President Carlos Garcia...