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...began to look like the same old story. Most critics rapped the opera, and some were scathing. The critic of Rome's Il Tempo totted up demerits: "Music? Zero. Originality? Artistic taste? Zero." There was a minority of approvals, led by Milan's influential Corriere della Sera: "A vibrant success . . . Menotti is an artist of tradition, a most Italian artist." Said Menotti: "Well, the reviews weren't all good, but the good ones were real raves-the first I've gotten in Italy. I must admit it feels wonderful...
...artists' quarter and took over an empty studio. He wore the artist's standard beret and velvet jacket, filled his room with paints, brushes, canvas and easel. But the man was no artist. He was Guglielmo Emanuel, Rome correspondent of Milan's Corriere della Sera, and one of Italy's most renowned anti-fascist journalists. For years he had been in trouble with Mussolini's police; now with the Germans in power, they were looking for him again. Emanuel decided it was time for a disguise. So, at 64, the white-haired journalist took...
After war's end, Emanuel, still safe & sound, shaved off his beard and went back to the Corriere della Sera, later became its editor. But he went on painting-on Sundays. After he retired as editor last year, he took up art full time. Working in a small study, he put whatever impressed him on canvas-as rapidly as possible to catch his first feeling for the subject. After two hours, he would put the picture away. "In a few days," he says, "if I felt the same emotion I had while I was painting, then I would know...
...reform Said the Demo-Christian Il Popolo: "The youth of today finds his moral support in a society of comic books movies and shows . . . where men & women shoot and poison, steal and assault; the representation of a jungle world." We are all convinced," said Milan's Corriere delta Sera, "that the Italian school program is loaded in a frightening manner. We must impose a remedy." Shrilled the Communist L'Unità: "The responsibility lies with the system in which we live, which transforms the school into a camp of ruthless competition for diplomas." But until school reform...
Purcell and his association here are currently using the new technology to study the properties of hydrogen in the solid state, achieved by cooling the gas down to temperature near absolute sera under pressure. Hydrogen is being used because the hydrogen atom is the simplest of all the elements