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From Broadway to Padua. Porter's music is just as distinctively his. Many of his songs, like Night and Day, favor a long melodic line that breaks out of the traditional four-measure bounds of the popular ballad. He can write gaily, in complicated rhythms (as in Anything Goes). He can match a pointedly off-color lyric with an insinuating tune (as in My Heart Belongs to Daddy). But the true Porter hallmark is cut in the bittersweet lament of What Is This Thing Called Love? and in the sultry, Latin fervor of Begin the Beguine...
...will be unable to paint the pictures on the walls directly, plans to do them on tile which will afterward be baked and placed in position. He hopes that the painting will have the same sort of impact that he himself once received from Giotto's frescoes at Padua...
Limited Violence. The parade (which was duplicated in smaller sizes at Milan, Turin, Padua and Florence) put the Communists in a box. The delicate question facing them was just how much disorder it would be wise to make in the last phase of the campaign. Some violence would help them scare timid voters from the polls, especially Italy's heavily anti-Communist women. But if Communists went too far, they might only provide an excuse for the government to use its force and postpone the elections until the ERP starts to raise Italian living standards and thus lower Communist...
...Results." Riccardo Lombardi was born 40 years ago in Naples to a devout, middle-class family from Piedmont. He began preaching while still a student at the University of Padua (he estimates that he has talked to a round total of 4,000,000 people). His favorite authors are the two great Catholic mystics, Saint Teresa of Avila and Saint John of the Cross, and in his tiny, bare, blue-walled room in Rome's Via Ripetta he spends most of his time praying. During his travels he tries to keep himself always "in communion with...
...worth of art, but most of the movable stuff eventually turned up in cellars and salt mines and in the private collections of top Nazis. One first-rank painting had been destroyed by bombing: Mantegna's frescoes painted on plaster in the Eremi-tani church at Padua...