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...headed dog that guarded Hades?" After that came a Latin movie about the Second Punic War, then a Plautus play called The Twins from Syracuse, and a rendering of the Marine song that no marine would ever recognize (Ab aulis Montezumae Tripolis ad litora . . .). Finally, after singing Te Cano, Patria, the audience rose to go-but not without a burst of applause for its hostess. "We love you, Dr. Martin," cried one Latin teacher. "Goodbye . . . Goodbye," shouted the kids...
...Roman proconsul in Spain. When the Roman Senate accused Scipio and his brother of accepting bribes and misappropriating funds, he tore up the account books in question, flung them on the floor of the Senate, and went into embittered exile. On his tomb, he ordered the inscription: "Ingrata patria, ne ossa quidem habebis [Ungrateful fatherland, you shall not have even my bones...
...Soprano Renata Tebaldi, 28, as Aïda. Tall (5 ft. 10 in.) and expressive, Tebaldi made a big impression both physically and vocally. Her flexible and powerful voice, known in the U.S. only on records, brought down the house in her first-(Ritorna vincitor) and third-act (O patria mid) arias...
...Much of Patria Mia has the unexpected charm of a period piece, because in it the 28-year-old Pound (frequently sounding more like 18) tilts at dragons long since slain and forgotten. At the time of his writing (1913), Pound averred, there was not an artist worth a damn at work in America. "Any pleasant thing in symmetrical trousers" passed for poetry; American literature was pervaded by "magazitis," i.e., the dry rot of the high-toned magazines. Sneered Pound: "It is well known that in the year of grace 1870, Jehovah appeared to Messrs. Harper...
...reader of Patria Mia will regretfully conclude that someone should have tethered Ezra Pound in time, before, like the arts of Zammbuck, he went...