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...White Hope. In Giuseppe di Lampedusa's bestselling novel The Leopard, a character remarks: "In Sicily it doesn't matter about doing things well or badly. The sin which we Sicilians never forgive is simply that of 'doing' at all." Danilo Dolci, the erratic but militant Italian reformer who settled in Partinico and runs a series of private settlement houses for slum dwellers that have stirred Italy's conscience, believes that Sicily should import a team of U.S.-trained sociologists to study the roots of Sicily's distress so that economic aid might...
...raucous moments as if Mickey Mantle had popped up with the bases loaded. While the performer stood transfixed, boos, catcalls and whistles filled the warm night air. Occasion: an open-air performance of Aïda at Verona, during which Soprano Antonietta Stella committed the unpardonable sin of muffing a high C in the difficult third-act aria O patria...
...shoulder, a clawlike right hand, and two small bumps on his head where a plastic surgeon has removed the horns. When he looks at people, he is "like a succubus whose mouth is its eyes." In the short span of this hilarious novel, Douglas the Devil coaxes into mortal sin not only Humphrey Place but most of the first citizens in the South London district of Peckham...
...Helen Bonfils Davis, a 20% Post stockholder and elderly daughter of the late Frederick G. Bonfils, who with Harry H. Tammen, his partner, built the Post into the gaudiest and most successful daily west of the Mississippi. Before Mrs. Davis' outraged eyes, Outsider Newhouse had committed two unpardonable sins. One was to covet her father's paper, about which Mrs. Davis harbors a passionate sense of proprietorship. The other Newhouse sin was to buy his 15% from Helen's older sister, May Bonfils Stanton...
...Brothers Four rose to sudden popularity with their recording of Greenfields. Inspired by the Kingston Trio, they often appear in gold shirts and Oxford grey shorts, offer hoked-up versions of such numbers as Eddystone Light and Let the Rest of the World Go By. Perhaps their most unforgivable sin, in the eyes of folk purists, is backing up their arrangements with cymbals and bongo drums...