Word: domenico
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...bright spring day in 1950, aglow with the look that once shone from Neapolitans headed for gold in the streets of New York, Pietro Merlino and Domenico Faticati left their Naples slum for a land of promise. But as they were devout Communists, this land was not the U.S., but Communist Hungary. They had no passports, but that did not matter; they had their party cards and all would be well. They would get jobs, send money to their hungry families (Merlino had eight children, Faticati four) and come home in two years with a brimful crock of gold...
...captive of Wall Street. 93. The church of San Domenico in Perugia was the scene of an event that troubled the Vatican...
...sacristy of Perugia's 4th century church of San Domenico last week, portraits of four Popes looked down on theatrical make-up men applying wigs and beards. Outside, photographers crowded into the pulpit. On a wooden stage below them, flanked by a large orchestra and chorus, a troupe of 50 dancers went through the first performance of Leonide Massine's Laudes Evangelii, a ballet "mystery play" depicting the story of Christ...
...Domenico had not been so closely involved in a theatrical production since medieval days. Never - so far as Vatican authorities could remember - had any Roman Catholic church been used for a ballet performance. The idea came last spring to Francesco Siciliani, art director of the Florence Community Theater. He broached it to Massine (who is Russian Orthodox), and the choreographer went to work. Siciliani got ecclesiastical permission from the Dominicans of San Domenico and from the Archbishop of Perugia...
...They don't do any." Others grieved. "They wouldn't talk to us," cried Giovanni Ovino. "I said to myself: 'Maybe they don't like my black hair.' In a funny way, I felt ashamed of my hair. But how could I change it?" Domenico Loi saw it in a wider context. "They weren't Communists . . . But if they had been Communists, they couldn't willfully have damaged their nation more." As if in agreement, the unseen foghorn moaned...