Word: seene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Remember." Though the Gold of Dongo has never since been seen, all Italy knows what happened to it: it went to Italy's Communist Party (whose headquarters in Rome is still popularly known as Palazzo Dongo). For more than a decade, in the face of persistent Communist stonewalling, successive Italian governments have been trying to unravel the intricate series of thefts and murders by which the Reds managed to get the treasure out of the hands of the partisans to whose care it was originally entrusted. Nearly two months ago in the marbled Palace of Justice at Padua...
...year-old mother of Luigi Canali, alias "Neri," an idealistic Communist who was murdered a week or so after he signed the original partisan inventory of the treasure. "I remember," said she, "when my son told me, 'Mama, those thieves are ruining everything. I have seen such things!' ' When her son disappeared, Mama Canali looked up his old associate Dante Gorreri seeking information, but all she got was an embrace and the bland question: "What do you hear of Neri...
...have a corner on the phony market. These characters are afraid they might be caught not knowing something. Some of these advertising guys-real phonies-would be better off running a gas station. You've got people going to the theater here simply because they ought to be seen at the theater. They hang out in these ginmills just to make sure they're in the act. What...
...Juan, excerpts from a Ravel Daphnis and Chloö suite. There was little stamping-only applause-for newer works (by Wallingford Riegger, Samuel Barber, Paul Creston, Bela Bartok). Said Dziennik Polski: "The Cleveland Orchestra plays like one magnificent soloist . . . A thing like yesterday's concert was never before seen or heard here...
...their paws." U.S. Sculptor Alexander Calder saw the bright rectangles on Mondrian's walls, went home, set the cubes in motion by creating his first mobile. Now, 13 years after Mondrian's death (in Manhattan, at 72), his recognition is reaching new heights. Paris, which had never seen a one-man Mondrian show, this spring had two. The first authoritative biography, by Michel Seuphor (Piet Mondrian; Abrams; $17.50), has just been published. Two U.S. museums are laying plans for large-scale Mondrian shows this autumn...