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...division, despair and death." In his New York Times column, Tom Wicker searched for an explanation of the assassinations among "violent western movies, the organized violence of professional football, the endless lines outside theaters showing The Godfather" The blasts from overseas were even more extravagant than usual. Said Milan's Corriere della Sera: "The U.S. is built on a structure of violence on every level. It is a perpetual state of siege that affects the whole society, from the mugger who kills a man for $20 in a subway to the B-52 pilot who calmly exterminates thousands...
...Milan, Italy...
Spring is the season when Amerlcan college opera companies pretend that they are the Metropolitan, La Scala, or Covent Garden. Often the results amount to just that-pretending. This year, however, campuses are positively blooming with new opera productions and new opera houses that New York, Milan and London could well be proud of. The architecture and stage facilities tend to be lavish, the repertory venturesome and the level of performances impressively high. In Connecticut next week, the University of Bridgeport will open a $5 million arts center with Neil Slater's Again, D.J., a rock-flavored updating...
...also attracting voters. "Look at all the crime we have now-robberies, rapes and murders," a fishwife in Rome's Piazza Vescovio outdoor market told Wynn. "It wasn't this way when we had Fascism, signore. We never had to lock our doors in those days." Milan's conservative magazine Oggi jokes that "the initials MSI no longer stand for Movimento Senza Importanza [Movement Without Importance]. Now they mean Maggioranza Silenziosa Italiana [Italy's Silent Majority...
Last week Feltrinelli's mutilated body was found at the foot of a power pylon five miles east of Milan. Police theorized that he had been killed by the accidental explosion of eight sticks of dynamite he had apparently been carrying. Feltrinelli, the police suggested, had been attempting to blow up the pylon and destroy part of Milan's electric-power system. Italy's far-leftists immediately charged that Feltrinelli had been murdered by political opponents on the right-a possibility that the police were also investigating...