Word: tullio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with Edward Johnson, the Met's general manager, who offered her a contract for two starring roles. Inexplicably, she turned him down. Her refusal started the soprano off on a long, wearing odyssey. On the way she studied the subtleties of her art with great teachers like Conductor Tullio Serafin and learned stagecraft from Luchino Visconti, whom she deeply loved...
Many Erie officials, not surprisingly, condemn the proposed slashing of CETA funds. Says Mayor Louis Tullio: "It's going to have a drastic effect on the nonprofit agencies, on the services they provide, and on the city of Erie." R. Benjamin Wiley, executive director of the Greater Erie Community Action Committee, which administers CETA programs, is even more vehement in describing the impact. "There's going to be more crime and more homicides," warns Wiley. "The bottom line is that if these programs are cut, you're putting more people out there on the unemployment line...
...Mayor Tullio admits that abolishing CETA will not throw all 500 CETA employees out of work. He estimates that the non-profit agencies will end up placing on their own payrolls as many as half of those currently paid by CETA. Says Tullio resignedly: "The things we're going to have to live without, we're going to have to live without." Meanwhile, most CETA workers are determined to find other jobs, rather than join the welfare rolls. "I'll try to find work," says David Goodwill, who is now paid $3.75 an hour by CETA...