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...wings") from Verdi's Nabucco-the same music that Toscanini himself tearfully conducted at Verdi's funeral 56 years ago. Then, without a spoken word, Maestro was placed beside his son and his wife Carla: Section 7, Tomb 184. "Milan and the world of music," reported // Giorno, "knelt at his grave...
...arms of astonished shoppers. Old peasant women taking food to the hotels and hospitals were offended if their gifts were not accepted. The city was aglitter with candles. Where the massacre which had sparked the revolution had taken place, one thousand candles formed a circle. Everyone who passed knelt for a brief moment...
Squires leaped away, scrambled into the trees, losing his Winchester and shells. He raced down the ravine. Ken Scott, for his part, thought the grizzly was chasing Squires. He knelt, opened his pocketknife, tried to clear his rifle. Then the bear was on him. The grizzly bit into his hand and face. It rolled over and over on his body, crushing and thrashing him with its killing weight. Four times the bear had Scott's head in his mouth, tearing away each time at his scalp...
...years later a statue of Marie Harel, or someone who was supposed to be Marie Harel, was unveiled at Vimoutiers by Alexandre Millerand, a former President of the Republic. It soon became a shrine for tourists, and also for local peasants, who often placed flowers at its feet and knelt in prayer for the secrets of properly ripened Camembert. Then, because of a G-2 mistake in World War II, both Marie and a good part of her village were blown to bits by a flight of U.S. Ninth Air Force bombers...
...bedchamber. When he came to bed and saw her fresh and tender as a flowering branch, he staggered back. "Who sent you here?" he gasped. His heart was pounding, but he told her: "Go away!" The maiden bowed her head and went, but in the antechamber she knelt lightly on a pillow, and taking up the emperor's lute, she played the melody that he had made in the plum garden. And as she played, his grief was healed. "You have consoled me by playing my music," the emperor said when she had done. "Stay with...