Word: calfing
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...libretto prescribed a cast of hundreds, including 70 elders, four "naked virgins," "dancers, supernumeraries of all kinds," and a golden calf. Vienna-born Composer Schoenberg's preoccupation with the Biblical story of Exodus paralleled his indignation at growing Naziism in Germany, his brooding about the Jews' new exodus. The opera's first and third acts are dominated by a philosophical dialogue between Moses and Aaron; Moses only speaks his part-a sign that, unlike the, glib, singing Aaron, the word fails him. Schoenberg etches the contrast between the hard but true faith of Moses and Aaron...
...opera's climactic moment, Moses causes the golden calf to collapse onstage ("Be gone, you image of powerlessness"). In the third act (not performed in Zurich because Schoenberg never completed the music for it) he denounces Aaron for having used God as a means to human ends. Aaron dies and Moses gives his uncompromising message to his people: "In the desert you shall achieve the goal: unity with...
...bobby-soxers' sideburned golden calf, Dreamboat Groaner Elvis (All Shook Up) Presley, rolled rockily into Chicago for his first visitation there, succeeded in slaughtering some 13,000 of his worshipers in the Stockyards' packed International Amphitheater. Appropriately, The Pelvis was got up in an outfit that could embarrass Liberace-a suit of gold lamé and the skin of an unborn calf, plus golden shoes (24-carat coating, claimed his handlers) to match. In an earlier session with dazzled newshounds, Elvis disclosed one of his great personal sorrows: "Ah always wanted sideburns, but Ah cain't grow...
...King Brothers; Universal-International). One wild, dark night on the Mexican altiplanicie, the wind screamed and the rain beat and the lightning felled a great branch on a cow, a mother of fighting bulls. By sheer might of instinct, the valiant beast survived long enough to drop her bull calf and to bellow until help came. It was a small boy (Michel Ray), the son of a Mexican vaquero, who found the hungry black buster where he wailed indignantly in the cold and wet, and carried him back to finish his first night in a warm bed. Gitano (gypsy...
...pelvis and all, eligible for drafting-probably to serve in some special services division, tote some such gone weapon as a guitar. Before rolling off in his Caddie, Elvis allowed that the intelligence test he had taken was a breeze. Groaned the bobby-soxers' golden calf: "Di'nt seem hard a'tall. Ah'm sure Ah passed...