Word: sera
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old Italian with a sure hand and a consuming desire to be a great artist. His first big exhibit in Milan three years ago drew record crowds and won wholehearted praise from Italy's usually wary critics. Wrote Leonardo Borgese in the respected Corriere della Sera: "Buttini is no fake. If he has any fault, it is that of being too good." Last week, with 114 of his pen & ink drawings on show at Manhattan's Grand Central Palace, U.S. gallerygoers could understand the enthusiasm...
...friend: "MacArthur s'en va" (MacArthur is leaving). "With all his merits," said a complacent Dutch housewife, "he was a nuisance." A veteran European diplomat snapped: "An abscess has been removed." Nodded an Italian official: "Bureaucratically, it was the correct thing to do." Milan's Corriere della Sera voiced the underlying sentiment of all: "Europe's victory against Asia in the competition for 'most important place' in general U.S. strategy." Wrote the Vatican's Osservatore Romano: "A decisive act, proclaiming a desire for peace . . . The President of the United States refused a policy that...
Mingled with the anger of editors was the strong faith that La Prensa eventually would triumph over Perón, just as Italy's Corriere della Sera had outlived Mussolini. "La Prensa apparently has lost a battle," wrote the Portland Oregon Journal, "but the war for truth won't be won by Perón, that is certain." Said the Manchester Guardian's Acting Editor J. R. L. Anderson: "Señor Perón and his friends can stop [La Prensa's] presses for a time, but when they have been dismissed to an ugly...
Next morning the critics took their whacks in print. The Communist Unità naturally found the opera "false in conception." Carriere della Sera took a more objective look: "Menotti's music is too old-fashioned...and cannot represent the ethical problems which Menotti attempts...
Although their music didn't help festivalgoers determine where Italian music might be heading, the three composers got a hearty welcome. The critic of the conservative Corriere delta Sera labeled Communist Zafred "a more brilliant and enthusiastic Shostakovich, more harmonious and proportioned and . . . more sincere." Turchi's Concerto was "a jewel of balance, reserve and nobility." Peragallo's twelve-tone experiments were "more intelligible and ear pleasing" than most such attempts...