Word: pietro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spread of dissent, wide as it was, apparently was not strong enough to break Togliatti's hold. In the course of the conference, he summoned party brass into a private meeting to consider disciplinary measures against the rebels, Pietro Secchia among them. Some demanded expulsion from the party, but Togliatti talked Secchia into suppressing his demands for sterner policies in return for a promise of no reprisals against the rebels. Then, Palmiro Togliatti strutted back into public view to pretend, by sarcasm and ridicule, that such a thing as dissent had never existed. "Comic . . . ridiculous . . . grotesque," said Togliatti. "These...
...brilliant new pianist appeared in the U.S. last week. He is Florence's Pietro Scarpini, 43, so far known in the U.S. only through one recording of Stravinsky and Bartok (Colosseum) and the praise of his American pupils. Last week, in Carnegie Hall, he performed with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony under Dimitri Mitropoulos. His selection: Prokofiev's rarely played, difficult Concerto...
...Pietro Scarpini the kudos was no surprise. He was a child prodigy who rattled off Liszt's Rhapsody No. 12 in public when he was six, won his piano diploma from Rome's St. Cecilia Conservatory when he was twelve. Today he is professor of piano at the University of Florence. There was just one thing about his Manhattan reception that puzzled him: "I don't understand the review that said I played very well, but it was a bad work. I don't play bad works. If I did, I could not play them well...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). With Pianist Pietro Scarpini...
...national scandal that was rapidly corroding confidence in the entire Italian governing class. Now the Reds were quick to seize on the government's action as an opportunity to bring down their hated enemy, tough Mario Scelba. Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti, with the support of Fellow-Traveling Socialist Pietro Nenni, threw one of his best firebrands against the government in Parliament. Before a packed Senate gallery, Red Senator Umberto Terracini recounted how Polito had served under National Police Chief Tommaso Pavone, who had resigned under the pressure of the Montesi case. And who had been Pavone's boss...