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Yale will sing folk and college songs and a group of English glees and madrigals. The Crimson program includes choruses from Cimarosa's opera, "if Matrimonio Segreto," and a portion of Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex." Both groups will jointly sing the finale choruses from "The Beggar's Opera" and the alma maters of each school...
...Angry Rabbit. When at last he arrived in Paris, Naundorff was a down-at-heel beggar. But he found an important champion. The lost Dauphin's old governess had come to scoff at the beggar's claims, but when she saw his prominent front teeth, the triangular vaccination on his arm and the pigeon-shaped mole of Louis Bourbon on Naundorff's thigh, she became convinced that he was the Dauphin. Naundorff even had a scar on his upper lip like that which the imprisoned Dauphin had got from the bite of an angry rabbit; the Dauphin...
...done. As Amherst withdrew from Peking, the snub was subtly underscored. In the streets he passed a beggar, who rose up deferentially. Amherst's mandarin escort instantly commanded the beggar to sit down again-"the British ambassador," dolefully observed his secretary, "not being now considered deserving respect even from the lowest class of society...
...Britain's trouble. U.S. press comment ranged from the thoughtful view that Britain's Socialist regime had merely aggravated a British economic weakness of long standing, to sharp criticism and invective ("The old British' backbone is turning to putty...Here is that beggar again...
...sets and costumes for four ballets and an opera, consistently delighted his tight, bright circle of admirers with such fantasies as Procession (see cut), in which evil red eyes peep from a paraded kettle. "See?" Burra says, "It's going to boil over and swamp them all. The beggar is getting out of the way-he hasn't a chance...