Word: vincenzo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Good Things. At 18, she was a beautiful young woman with shining eyes and jet black hair. She wanted the "good things in life." In the fall of 1943, she began to go about with one Vincenzo Antonelli, a notorious young Fascist street brawler, who roamed the Jewish quarter with a gang of toughs, plundering shops and beating up stray Jews. Then the Nazi SS (which ruled Rome) started raiding the ghetto. Whole families were sent to concentration camps...
Verdi: La Traviata (Soloists, chorus and orchestra of the Opera House, Rome, Vincenzo Bellezza conducting; Columbia, 30 sides, two albums). Apparently Columbia intends to catch the impatient, who don't want to wait for Toscanini's promised recording of Traviata. The recording is uneven, and Rome's postwar opera company is not all it should be. Performance: fair...
Nearly seven centuries after their founding, King Charles Albert of Piedmont granted the Waldensians civil and religious liberty (1848). Said the King's Minister of State, Vincenzo Gioberti: "The Waldensians have suffered cruel persecution, and it becomes us Catholics to confess this publicly, so that none may accuse us of conniving at the errors of past centuries...
...earns around $350 a week, wears out three pairs of ballet slippers doing it. Though a danseuse noble, she keeps on studying with the enthusiasm of a tyro. In Manhattan she arrives every morning at 10:30 at the studio of her trainer, a Svengalian Italian ballet master named Vincenzo Celli. He ruthlessly analyzes her shortcomings, puts her through an hour's workout that would wilt a professional athlete. By noon she is on the Metropolitan stage, dressed in tights and a black velvet tunic, ready for hours of rehearsal. With scarcely time...
...pounds are sustained by the appetite of a longshoreman. She eats five or six meals a day, takes three vitamin pills, and is a chain drinker of chocolate milk shakes, which are delivered almost hourly to her dressing room. "Fragility, hah!" snorts Trainer Vincenzo Celli, "she has a Rolls-Royce powerhouse constitution...