Word: aeneid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...magic and spectacle, handled most ingeniously (and without the 140-man stage crew that Charles Kean needed in 1857). When Miranda is put to sleep, she slumbers levitated a couple of feet above ground. The instantaneous appearance and disappearance of the banquet (borrowed from Book II of Vergil's Aeneid) is truly miraculous, as are the periodic flashes of St. Elmo's fire all over the place...
...Panos is on the team... they go on a different trip every year... they're supposed to be a pretty good basketball team... it includes the Aeneid... they are pretty tall...
...devotes most of his book to the past 150 years, the period of the public schools' greatest influence and eventual decline. Masters like Dr. Thomas Arnold injected Victorian moral earnestness into the system. Schools became molders of character and soul. Students who had been forced to memorize the Aeneid still graduated unable to write their native tongue, but the harrowing, evangelical zeal drummed into them for years helped them become high-minded gentlemen, trained to follow their superiors and lead the lower classes. Rabid athleticism flourished...
...slogan will appear on T-shirts marking Radcliffe's 100th anniversary. It is a paraphrase of the opening words of Virgil's "Aeneid," "Of arms and the man I sing...
...text of Les Troyens was drawn from Virgil's Aeneid by Berlioz himself. It is an Iliadic arch that spans the siege of Troy, the death of the Trojan women and Aeneas' departure to establish Rome. Indisputably the most epic of all grand operas, it has not yet achieved the popularity of Boris Godunov or Otello, but it is on its way. Britain's Covent Garden has successfully done it twice. The earlier English production, in 1957, was the first full staging in a single evening that even approximated the composer's original intentions. (Berlioz broke...