Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...classical, dramatic talents in mind (she is semi-retired). In La Fille, noted London critics, he had done something different-"an open-air, sunlit ballet as perfect of its kind as the moonlit Sylvia or Ondine or the chandeliered La Valse." But the enthusiastic response did not alter Ashton's gloomy estimate of the ballet public. "I feel," said he, "that most people still think choreography is something to do with the feet-like chiropody...
...constitution ("It may take years, and I may not live to see it, but I intend to push forward until I die"). He proposes to make the Emperor again "head of state" instead of merely a symbol, to have provincial governors appointed by Tokyo instead of elected, and to alter the House of Councilors-Japan's Senate-by substituting a number of appointed "distinguished citizens" for some of the elected members. He also aims at erasing Article IX of the constitution ("Land, sea and air forces as well as other war potential will never be maintained...
...pouring out his love to the girl in accents of passion. Did he know, asked the girl, that she had poisoned his mother? He did not. But he remembered, of course, that she had shot his father dead in that same room not six months before. Did that alter his feelings? It did not. At scene's end, the happy couple sprawled in warm embrace while the young lady mused: "Is this the same divan where your father bled to death...