Word: visas
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Last week the adventurous Boston Opera produced Intolleranza for the first time in the U.S.-and right from the beginning there was provocation aplenty. First, Nono's application for a visitor's visa to the U.S. was denied because he is a member of the Italian Communist Party. Two Boston newspapers and a committee of 65 U.S. musicians and composers protested and got the State Department to change its mind. Nono arrived two weeks late, demanded so many last-minute changes that the opening was postponed for two days. Once the curtain went up, however, Intolleranza proved...
...wants to stay there. Try telling that to the Marines, who (unlike the Army and the Navy) regard Okinawa as a combat-ready assignment and limit dependents' visits to 60 days. So Norma took her 60, then flew to Japan and bounced back on a 60-day tourist visa that expires Feb. 12. The leathernecks are getting pretty chafed about it, but Norma is determined to stay. She even bearded the Marines' Pacific commander, Lieut. General Victor Krulak, 52 (known fondly to his staff...
...Italian Communist composer has been denied a United States visa to attend the performance of his opera by the Boston Opera Group...
Luigl Nono, who recently ran on the Communist Party ticket in the municipal elections of Italy, was denied the visa under a section of the immigration law which provides against the admission of Communists, anarchists, and other undesirables...
Through a Curtain Darkly. Amsterdam was a refuge to Beckmann for two years, but the Nazis arrived before he could get a visa to the U.S. He virtually hid out while his unwanted countrymen tried to draft him, aged 60 and with a heart condition, into last-ditch service. After his final war, Beckmann was free to emigrate to the U.S., where he taught in St. Louis and New York...