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...great losers in all this are Lech Walesa and the other Solidarnosc leaders. They are out of jail, but--without strong support from the Church--they have fallen into oblivion. In 1983, Virginio Levi, Director of the Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano, was fired for writing an editorial saying what the Church would not admit: that Walesa and Solidarnosc had been sacrificed...
While much of the evidence points intriguingly toward Bulgarian and potentially Soviet complicity, it is still mostly circumstantial. As a result, the Italian authorities are treading very carefully. "It is a matter of extremely serious facts," Interior Minister Virginio Rognoni said last week, but up to now only "evidence, not proof, has emerged...
That is what the Chicago production failed to do. Adam and Eve, sung by Baritone William Stone and Soprano Ellen Shade, and Satan, Bass-Baritone Peter Van Ginkel, stumbled about in semidarkness. There seemed to be a ban on imaginative staging. Only twelve days before the premiere, the director, Virginio Puecher, resigned under pressure. "He wanted to do too much movement," said Penderecki. "I think that the drama should be in the music...
...threw the bash for friends who had helped her through her 3½ years of research for the book. Nine of them had anted up a total of $23,000 when she ran short of cash, and Shere was repaying the loans both in cash and in style. Said Virginio Del Toro, 48, a doorman and a patron to the tune of $15,000: "She was doing something somebody had to study. I only worried I would drop dead or something before she finished...
...Italian astronomer Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli (an uncle of the present-day Paris couturiere) reported actually observing canali linking dark areas on Mars. Although the Italian word can simply mean channels or grooves, it was promptly translated into English as canals, which suggested that they were artificially made. That inspired an erstwhile American diplomat named Percival Lowell (of the Boston Lowells) to take up astronomy and establish an observatory near dry, cloudless Flagstaff, Ariz., principally to study Mars. Lowell spotted hundreds of "canals" on the Martian surface and contributed the theory that they were the work of an advanced civilization. Belief...