Word: 18th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...huge, unlit Albert Hall, while cleaners dusted, the critics and the curious watched as Sir Malcolm Sargent stopped the London Philharmonic Orchestra for the 18th time to cry "No, no! ... Back to bar 175 again." Finally, looking at his watch, he muttered, "Only two minutes more. My God, I must have this again." Composer Schnabel, bent over his score, nodded his huge, bristly head with sympathy. Two years ago, the Minneapolis Symphony had taken 25 rehearsals before it dared to give Schnabel's treacherous piece its first U.S. hearing...
Prokofiev based his opera on Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 18th Century comedy: a grandee's daughter, facing parental opposition to her marriage, slyly marries off her duenna to the parental choice (a rich fish merchant...
...taught me how to shoot a sexy dame singing a song and stuff like that." Welles has spent the past six months touring Italy, mostly vacationing. But he tossed off Cagliostro, a film biography of the great 18th Century charlatan, in between an audience with the Pope, an interview with Togliatti, and writing occasional pieces for the New York Post. "I've never seen what I wrote in print," he says. "It was like writing in sand...
Alexander Pope, a brilliant, vindictive little hunchback who became the greatest satirical poet of his century (the 18th), usually had the last word, and usually it lasted. Vain and touchy, a brilliant, malicious destroyer of reputations, he was a critical menace to the dull and mediocre in life and literature. Also one of the ablest craftsmen of verse who ever lived, he packed more in a couplet than others could in a stanza. Unlike many modern poets, he wrote both lucidly and sharply; he intended to be understood by every intelligent reader. He died of dropsy at 56. These characteristic...
Schoolchildren got the day off. The cadet corps and the boys' band showed up from Lethbridge, and the 18th Field Regiment from Great Falls, Mont. Over a symbolic arch on the border roared U.S. and Canadian planes. The occasion was last week's opening of the new hard-surfaced highway from the border town of Coutts to Lethbridge. It was also the start of Alberta's drive for U.S. tourists. Governor General Alexander, who cut the ribbon, added that he hoped the highway "might happily serve its noble purpose...