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...young at 46 to be urgently in need of one, Composer-Librettist Gian Carlo Menotti (The Consul, The Saint of Bleecker Street) was asked how he would phrase his own obituary. Much moved at the thought of his passing, Menotti ad-libbed a lyric that might be sung to one of his own scores: "Last night while he was having dinner, he suddenly vanished without a whimper, into thin air. A few drops of perfume fell on the table, and a heavenly choir was heard in the distance. As nothing has been heard from him since, we presume that...
Warren's appointment to the Supreme Court is Eisenhower's biggest blunder and the most inept since Caligula named his horse a consul...
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First of the series of evening stage presentations was Gian-Carlo Menotti's opera "The Consul," given four times. Menotti's best work, though musically uneven, it ranks with Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" and Copland's "The Tender Land" as one of the three finest operas to come out of this country. "The Consul" demonstrates an unerring sense of theatre in its almost unrelievedly anguished tale of Magda Sorel's attempt to get out of a bureaucratic country crawling with secret police, and its tragic results--a timely story in view of recent events in Hungary...
...Department since 1952. Foreign Service Officer McConaughy has seen his share of lights going out in Asia: in 1941, while serving in the U.S. embassy in Peking, he was interned by the Japanese, released the following year. After a swing through Latin America he returned to China as U.S. consul in Shanghai, closed down the post in 1950 after the Communists had moved in. Principal current aim and ambition: to keep the lights burning brightly in Burma...