Word: ricci
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When I was a boy," the guest conductor told the orchestra, "there were four very good young violinists here in San Francisco. One was Isaac Stern, one was Ruggiero Ricci, one was Yehudi Menuhin, and the fourth was Joe Alioto. I know what happened to the first three-but what ever became of Joe Alioto?" Among other things, he grew up to be mayor of San Francisco. Now he was before the San Francisco Symphony, telling jokes on himself and preparing to lead the orchestra through the opening number of a benefit performance. The mayor, who still practices his violin...
...DEAN MARTIN SHOW (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The Sinatras join the Martins for some Christmas cheer, family style. That adds up to Frank, Nancy, Frank Jr. and Tina; Dean, Jeanne, Craig, Claudia, Gail, Deana, Dino, Ricci and Gina...
Every country is not only a country but also an idea. The idea of China has haunted-and usually eluded-the Western mind ever since travelers set out to find the dream of golden-roofed Cathay. In the Renaissance, Matteo Ricci, the Italian Jesuit who reported on China under the Ming dynasty, praised the country's "orderly management of the entire realm." In the Age of Reason, Leibniz suggested that what Europe needed was Chinese missionaries to teach "goodness." In the Victorian era, the U.S. Protestant missionary Arthur H. Smith was shocked by China's "indifference to suffering...
...although sometimes it seems to non-Catholics like a merry-go-round that permits influential Catholics such as Lee Radziwill and Moviemaker Michelangelo Antonioni to shed old spouses and acquire new ones with the approval of the church. Currently, Italian Actor Vittorio Gassman, twice mar ried (to Actresses Nora Ricci and Shelley Winters) and twice civilly divorced, is asking the Rota to annul his church marriage to Ricci on grounds that she did not accept the indissolubility of marriage at the time she contracted it, which would make it invalid in the eyes of the church. The annulment, if granted...
...week round of showings got under way, the overall tone was soft-pretty rather than bold, more flattering than fussy. Gerard Pipart, 31, in his second season at Nina Ricci, caused a major ripple with coats slashed up to the waist, long double-breasted jackets and dresses, most made of silk and crepe, cut on the bias to leave the figure looking long and lazy...