Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most significant artistic achievement was the opera itself, which Mr. Goldovsky and a similar cast lied presented for the first time in America at Tanglewood last summer. Like several other Mozart operas, notably "Cosi Fan Tutte," "Idomeneo" is a diamond lying neglected amidst the track of the nineteenth century. The orchestral passages are exceptional even for Mozart, and the choral writing is superior to that in his more famous operas. As presented in Mr. Goldovsky's adaptation, the first act was highly conventionalized and contained too much plot exposition in the form of recitative--arias were scarce, in fact...
First Chance. After 17 months in office, SEC Chairman James J. Caffrey resigned to go into private law practice, thus gave Republicans their first chance to cast a deciding vote on the make-up of SEC. The commission is now split, two Democrats and two Republicans. The G.O.P. Senate must approve the new presidential appointment...
Back Again. In Spokane, Wash., Alzar Arndt finally had the cast taken off his broken back after three months, went out to celebrate, got a slap on the back, went off to the hospital to have his back fixed again...
Broncs In Bronze. As he pumps visitors for ideas, he shows off his treasures: fine saddles, ship models, bronze figures of cowboys on bucking broncos, cast from clay he has modeled. Usually he brings out. a bottle, though he no longer touches the stuff himself and sticks to cigarettes -the tailor-made kind...
Greek-born Spyros Skouras, boss of 20th Century-Fox, is cast in the Homeric mold...