Word: burned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Conductor La Selva, 31, is far more than a musical talent scout-as last week's performance demonstrated. He whipped his orchestra through a fiery performance that seemed to burn with fresh brilliance along Menotti's arching melodic lines. Moreover, La Selva kept his singers working in fine coordination with the orchestra as he cued their entrances with a fiercely stabbing finger, a violent toss of his head. At opera's end Composer Menotti, who had watched misty-eyed, rushed backstage to embrace La Selva. "I was," said a surprised Menotti, "extremely moved...
...them. This, fortunately, can be remedied simply: the Faculty should vote that all those who give examinations must return blue books to any students who want them, by mail for May exams, if necessary. The only professors disturbed by this change will be those amateur witch-doctors who burn the blue books from their courses as a symbolic destruction of their students...
...account for its heterogeneity. They gave up one of the best possibilities of the play, that of delighting the eye with a great Roman spectacle, by giving it in modern dress. Weli, not quite modern dress. Men wore tuxedoes and lit their cigarettes with Zippo lighters, careful not to burn their Edwardian sideburns. Caesonia (Caligula's mistress) appeared in several very Roman costumes, one modern evening gown, and one outfit that would not have been out of place in the chorus line of the Copacabana. Asa Gates designed those costumes which were not rented from a tuxedo agency. There...
...Dutch Elm disease of the soul which starts by ravaging one noble custom and then infects all, until it has denuded the landscape of that which gave it beauty; a fire, which leaves one great oak a smouldering heap of common ashes and then disappears underground, slowly to burn its hellish fire through a subterranean network of roots until it bursts forth once again as a great blaze, consuming all and leaving nothing...
...Communist guerrillas in South Viet Nam, called Viet Cong, burn villages, capture rice barges, mine roads, extort money and food from peasants. Last year, in thousands of little quick strikes, they blew up 284 bridges, killed 4,000 officials, village elders, soldiers and farmers. Last week, with South Viet Nam headed for the polls in a presidential election, fighting broke out all over. Just north of Saigon, an army patrol blundered into a Viet Cong ambush, lost 13 dead and eleven wounded. Forty miles south of Saigon. the army surprised seven companies of Viet Cong, killed 54 and captured...