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WALTON: THE BEAR (Angel). British Composer William Walton premiered this one-act gem only a year ago. He was fortunate in finding an excellent librettist (an increasingly rare breed of writer) named Paul Dehn, who based his freewheeling lyrics on Chekhov's farce. Walton's eclectic styles are more than equal to the idiotic but entertaining plot about Popova, a widow who so enrages a creditor that he challenges her to a duel, but they suffer the fate of operatic lightning-love and fall into each other's arms. The work is laced with musical and verbal...
...Give them all their due, But-weren't they still the least bit parvenu, The least bit not quite Mayflower, F.F.V., A trace this side of true gentility, A soupfon, a sous-soupçon, just below The absolute apogee of comme il faut? They did improve the breed, they kept alive The sport of kings, so that, in 1905, The naming of this racecourse set the crown Of laurel on their virtuous renown, As beautiful, as elegant a setting As one could ever hope to find for betting...
...DRUGS breed tremendous distrust. At Exeter there's a story going round that a student had his mail opened by the academy who found some grass. He wasn't prosecuted because he couldn't be assumed responsible for what someone sent...
Among Italy's emerging new breed of Roman Catholic militants, the Jacques Maritain Circle (named after the French philosopher) arranged a memorial mass in Che's honor last February, and Catholic services for him have been held in several other countries. In Brazil, mythmakers have circulated thousands of copies of a photograph of the dead Che captioned "A Saint of Our Time." Italian students have christened him Angela della Pace-"Angel of Peace...
...Department quit at just the wrong moment; since then horses have staged a surprising comeback, now total more than 7,000,000, of which 85% are saddle horses. Nor has the demand by any means peaked. Nearly every breed is still on the increase, from Tennessee Walking Horses (91,000) to Shetland ponies (119,000). Arabians - the currently chic horse in many places - stood at 16,015 in 1959; today there are 46,266 registered in the U.S. and Canada. The Appaloosa, the unusually spot ted horse that got much of its vogue from Walt Disney...