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...while scheming to trap him into marriage with their daughters. The dialogue may be racy in Italian, but in Lawrence's English it comes out as a series of blurted phrases overloaded with sarcasm and exclamation points. It all seems as noisy as an Italian kitchen when the pasta has boiled over on the baby. But Novelist Verga tells his story with a superb eye for the beauty and squalor of his Sicilian village-its busybody priest scurrying among the decaying mansions and their decaying inhabitants, its restive peasantry caught up in their inept revolutions...
...sopranos; the name role has been tackled by the world's top prima donnas from Giuditta Pasta (who created it) to Jenny Lind, Lilli Lehmann and Rosa Ponselle. Norma is on stage-and singing-for almost two hours, or long enough to satisfy the heartiest spotlight appetite. She ranges the emotional gamut from mother love to infanticide. Best of all, the part is almost impossible to sing, and few of today's voices can both spin the intricate tracery of its high coloratura and belt out the chesty low tones...
...some kept on working their machines. Mayor La Pira rushed to their aid. He attended Mass with them in the factory courtyard, talked strategy with the Communist-dominated union committee, and showed the workers that someone besides the Communists was active in their interests. Merchants donated meat, fish, pasta, bread, wine and cigarettes; the city and provincial councils scraped up 3,000,000 lire ($4,800) for the workers' families. La Pira fired off a letter to the Vatican, got a papal blessing on his campaign...
...Joseph Paul DiMaggio Jr., 38, onetime vice president in charge of batting, fielding and gate receipts for the New York Yankees, was appointed vice president in charge of public relations on the West Coast for Buitoni Foods Corp., makers of spaghetti and other pasta products...
Long-barbed durum wheat-the kind that is good for pasta-is turning gold in Sicily and Calabria. Soon the harvest will begin, rolling up the toe and shin and length of the Italian boot-possibly a bumper crop like last year's. Meanwhile, there are almonds to be picked on the rolling plains of Puglia, forage grass to be cut in the lush Po Valley, cherries to be picked off the greyish flatlands around Naples. And a bumper crop of tourists-perhaps 6,000,000 -is descending on Italy, eager to be harvested. To the tourist...