Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Metropolitan has been trumpeting a good deal about its new opera, Benjamin Britten's "Peter Grimes." I suspect that the fanfare has been, at least in part, an attempt to cover its neglect of modern opera, for "Grimes" seems to be the only work in the current repertoire that is less than 30 years old. This is not wholly the fault of the Met, since it has staged several unsuccessful premieres in recent decades; the empty seats in the Opera House Thursday night showed that the responsibility also lies with the public. But the Met has not gone...
...were all impressed with this skillful management of the throng. The audience hadn't heard Mr. Barrone at all, because the orchestra played some loud music to cover...
Last week Moscow's Literary Gazette scrutinized Pocket Books, Inc.'s 25? U.S. edition of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, declared it "a monstrous crime against world culture." To catch the newsstand trade, the American edition wore on the cover a colored photograph of Cinemactress Vivien Leigh (Anna)* and moony, mustached Cinemactor Kieron Moore (Vronsky), separated by a nose tip from a Hollywood embrace. To Communist eyes this appeared "as bright and shiny as a toilet soap advertisement." In cutting the bulky novel by approximately two-thirds, gritted the Literary Gazette, the "American barbarians" had reduced Tolstoy...
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...House Committees are successful in their current "adoption" drives, there will be sevenless displaced persons of college age in European camps by next September. The request for funds to cover the DPs' room, board, and expenses isn't just another charity solicitation. It is a unique project: those who contribute will be bringing fellow-students to Harvard and fellow-human beings to America--from a part of the world where the opportunities for study and decent living have been sparse, to put it mildly...