Word: rinaldo
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...both. The composer, said Rossi, "scarcely gave me the time to write, and to my great wonder I saw an entire opera put to music by that surprising genius, with the greatest of perfection, in only two weeks." The genius was George Frideric Handel, then 26. The opera was Rinaldo, conceived, composed and staged for London's Haymarket Theater in 1711. Based on an epic about the Crusades by Torquato Tasso, the opera tells the story of the Christian general Rinaldo and the Saracen queen Armida. It is a spectacular mixture of pagan magic, military pomp, vocal fireworks...
Carli's replacement will be a triumvirate headed by his longtime deputy, Paolo Baffi, 64, a retiring monetary expert whose views are not known to differ from Carli's. The others are Rinaldo Ossola, 61, a former chairman of the International Monetary Fund's Group of Ten, who is credited with the invention of Special Drawing Rights, and Mario Ercolani, also 61, until now head of the bank's foreign exchange operations. The new team appears to have won the approval of Italy's business community. Says Tire Maker Leopoldo Pirelli: "While one regrets that...
...coming back with the seeds of foreign taste sticking to them like burrs. As a result, the range of the period was astonishing; it ran from Magnasco's turbid compositions of raggedy monks to the grandeur and sun-washed transparency of Tiepolo's Armida Abandoned by Rinaldo, from Pier-Leone Ghezzi's wry grotesqueries and exact social observation to the flaccid but competent imitations of French classical landscape turned out by such artists as Orizzonte. For the first time, Italian artists had to face the fact that they were not living in a paradise of cultural self...
...Nash began to feel out the course. Scorning a steering wheel, handling the runner ropes with the iron hands of a jockey, he zipped through the first run in 1 min. 18.49 sec., the second in 1 min. 18.96 sec.-enough to give him a ⅓sec. lead over Rinaldo Ruatti in the No. 1 Italian sled...
...quite. While the Dutch and Italians exulted, the Coal and Steel Community's High Authority, which has the power to overrule its member nations, hastily met. It took only 15 minutes before High Authority President Rinaldo Del Bò, himself an Italian, emerged to announce that "with deepest regret" the High Authority had found it "indispensable" to raise the tariff on steel. That gave the higher-tariff backers the right to put the new rates into effect immediately, although those that oppose them can still appeal for a judgment by the Common Market's Court of Justice...