Word: piazzas
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During the evenings at Gian Carlo Menotti's Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds, the goings-on were grand. Festive Roman audiences wildly applauded Luchino Visconti's lavish production of La Traviata. The Messiah was sung on the moonlit Piazza del Duomo that it might satisfy all the senses. When the festival's sixth season neared its close, Founder Menotti looked ahead anxiously. "Everyone," he sighed last week, "expects exceptional productions. It's really tough figuring out how I will keep it up during the next ten years...
Kiss Me Kate, Cole Porter's musical melding of bard and bawd, with Marguerite Piazza as the tamed shrew. Wallingford, Conn.; Framingham. Mass.; Warwick, R.I.; North Tonawanda...
...before dawn on Pentecost, the great Christian feast that celebrates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon Jesus' Apostles. In the cool June night, 5,000 people stood watch in the moonlit piazza of St. Peter's. Some prayed; some chatted; some-Rome being what it is-eyed their neighbors for the bulge of a wallet, the unguarded clasp of a handbag. Most of those at the vigil looked often to the lighted windows on the top floor of the Vatican Palace. There the life of Pope John XXIII was slowly, inevitably, ebbing away...
...townsfolk his recent visit to Washington as evidence of Italy's high standing with the U.S. For campaign purposes even Fanfani's Socialist allies have been warming to the U.S. Asked a Socialist speaker, confident of an affirmative answer from a crowd in Bologna's Piazza Matteotti: "If Kennedy were in Italy, would he not support the opening to the left?" Perhaps he would...
...Pincio Garden, casting provocative glances over the tops of sunglasses at passersby; by dinnertime, they begin congregating near Rome's biggest supermarket alongside Olympic Village and beside the vast ruins of the Baths of Caracalla. At 9 o'clock, on the corner of Via Sistina near the Piazza di Spagna. the prettiest prostitutes appear, dressed not as professional hookers but as sweet little schoolgirls...