Word: dark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dark, ingratiating Gian-Carlo finished his opera last summer, wrote the libretto (in Italian) as well as the score. Because he believes music should match words, young Menotti rewrote much of his score to fit George Mead's English translation of the text. Menotti is already hard at work on another opera called The Last Superman, about which he will reveal nothing save that it begins with some old ladies playing bridge. At Curtis he met Samuel Barber, 26, of Westchester, Pa., who was beaming at Menotti's premiere last week, as fortnight ago Menotti was beaming...
...fashioned uncurtained windows overlook a half-acre of English garden, she has made a world of her own. It is not a cork-lined invalid's retreat like Marcel Proust's, with the shades drawn; nor a chamber of nightmares like James Joyce's, where after dark all the familiar objects break up into strange & sinister shapes. Visitors who feel at home in Virginia Woolfs world say it is a room with a view...
...Dark v. Light...
Inter-varsity rowing, in the thoughts of all true Britishers, begins and ends before the U. S. rowing season starts-with "The Boat Race" between Oxford (Dark Blue) and Cambridge (Light Blue), over four miles of the Thames between Putney Bridge and Mortlake Brewery. Almost as much of a tradition as the boat race itself is its result. Before last week's race, Cambridge had won 13 in a row, lost only one since the War. After a false start, the race started out as usual last week: Cambridge, in the Surrey-side lane, pulled around the first curve...
...Last week, eight hours after leaving Honolulu, having flown some 500 ft. over the sea at 140 m.p.h., the Pan American Clipper hit Kingman Reef right on the nose, lit on the light green waters of the lagoon, which, reported Capt. Musick, "stood out in sharp contrast to the dark indigo of the surrounding...