Word: careering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scala, in Milan, Arturo Toscanini conducted a new opera by Ildebrando Pizzetti. Its story, taken from a mediaeval monk's chronicle, was that of "a young Parman of low birth, layman, idiot, and fool," one Gherardhino Segarello, whose reckless career of devotion and debauchery caused him to be put in jail, led out only to amuse guests when the Bishop of Parma gave a banquet. Pizzetti had chosen to make a martyr of this squalid clown, to endow his dishonorable poverty with Franciscan splendor...
...became a composer after a brief, uproarious and distinguished career as a conductor; wrote tone poems which, in the U. S. at least, remain his most popular work. Of these, Don Juan is perhaps the most celebrated; Till Eulenspiegels Merry Pranks (one of the few genuinely comic bits of music ever created) frames in melody the "owl-glass" legends of a fantastic buffoon who once annoyed staunch German burghers; Death and Transfiguration is a profoundly magnificent effort to encompass a theme more holy than most which have engaged its author's attention...
Such is the tragic tale which Pizzetti has adorned with perhaps the most splendid music of his career. The opera was undoubtedly too long and it seemed to contain a superfluity of dialogue, of inactive interludes that were only vaguely melodic. Lyrical passages were few. Fra Gherardo was original mainly for its orchestration and for the thunderous, muttering chorus which reached its climax in a mob scene at the end of the third act. These choruses were unlike anything that Milanese operagoers had ever seen before. There was something terrible and true in that imitation of the angry shouted songs...
Accordingly, Germany was represented on the Council, last week, by that veteran pre-War and post-War "career diplomat," Dr. von Schubert, now Assistant Foreign Minister. Came in behalf of France her reputedly richest citizen, M. Louis Loucheur, not long since Finance Minister. (TIME, Dec. 28, 1925). Just prior to leaving Paris last week, M. Loucheur accepted the post of Minister of Labor, replacing unlucky M. André Falliére, who lost his parliamentary seat in the recent French election (TIME, April...
...commercial existence into a congenial life of valets, and books, and motor cars, but no friends. This might soon have palled had he not become further involved with his benefactor-who did not die after all. Years before, the exciting climax to Lord Ardrington's checkered career in South America had been a bitter trick played on his two partners, villains both. These two worked their way to prosperity as American bootleggers, and came at last to London, still snarling and snorting for revenge. Their sophisticated method was the slow, subtle torture of intimidation; their exquisite object, that black...