Word: rome
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...because we’ve got a much more international team, and everyone plays with borrowed or leased horses. Except for me.” What are his horses’ names? Baja, Maggie, Davis, Petra, and Negro. And who are his players? All Harvard grads. Marco Elser from Rome, Hanni Habbas ’86 from London, James McBride from South Africa, and Rhett J. Drugge ’81, who co-founded the Ivy Cup with Johnson back in 2002.The Harvard squad, it seems, is more pure-blooded than the rest: most of the Yale and Princeton players...
...DIED. Alida Valli, 84, intelligent, incandescent Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films, including Carol Reed's The Third Man, Luchino Visconti's Senso and Bernardo Bertolucci's The Spider's Stratagem; in Rome. A baroness who went into hiding during World War II to avoid being recruited for Mussolini's propaganda efforts, she received a career Golden Lion award at the 1997 Venice Film Festival...
DIED. Alida Valli, 84, intelligent, incandescent Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films, including Carol Reed's The Third Man, Luchino Visconti's Senso and Bernardo Bertolucci's The Spider's Stratagem; in Rome. A baroness who went into hiding during World War II to avoid being recruited for Mussolini's propaganda efforts, she received a career Golden Lion award at the 1997 Venice Film Festival...
...BachSoc) concert on Friday, April 28 was of a similar vein, sandwiching J.S. Bach’s Cantata “Nimm was dein ist” between Beethoven’s Overture to Coriolanus, which describes a Roman exile leading an attack on the democracy of Rome, and his Sixth Symphony, which features idyllic pastures...
...compliments on a well-written article. I can say with conviction that Guia Soncini, the columnist for a women's magazine quoted in your story, hit the nail on the head when she said the youth of Italy "are comfortable with how things are." As a Filipino immigrant in Rome, I can only agree. The reluctance of young Italians to take risks is still something of a marvel to me. I work for a family whose 36-year-old son doesn't seem to want to move out of the house, saying his salary won't permit him to stand...