Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democratic strategy of the moment, as dictated by Emil Hurja and his statistical organization, is to create the illusion of victory, saying that no matter what the opposition does, it cannot win. If the opposition can be thus persuaded to lie down and die, so much the better for the Democratic, party. But while the leading candidates are bickering over the nomination, Mr. Hoover has kept the spotlight on the real problem of showing up the basic fallacies of the New Deal. His recent bursts of oratory have done much to guide the party's policy...
...Schmidt raised his rifle, shot and killed three. On trial at Rabaul on the neighboring island of New Britain, Schmidt's sole defense was that he had planned to frighten the blacks and what was so bad about killing a few Papuans anyway? Old Ludwig was sentenced to die...
...largely limited to new performers who come cheap compared with new productions. Of the 19 new singers, only two achieved a real success. One was Australia's Marjorie Lawrence, who at 28 and with only three years' opera experience undertook the difficult Brünnhildes in Die Walküre and Götterdäm-merung, made news in the latter by mounting her horse, actually galloping from the stage in accordance with Wagner's ambitious directions. The other was Sweden's Gertrud Wettergren, who proved herself a sure singing actress, strode the stage regally...
Cincinnati Germans who do much to support Cincinnati Music complained chiefly because Die Meistersinger had become The Master singers, had suffered, according to their lights, by the English translation. Similar controversies have simmered in every U. S. opera community. For those who believe that the texts should be comprehensible to all, there are as many who want their operas the way they were written. The advocates of anglicized opera maintain that theirs is the one solution for broadening opera's appeal in the U. S., point to the fact that in European opera houses performances are almost always given...
Operatic comedies have had the most success in translation. The Cleveland Orchestra has given praiseworthy performances of Die Fledermaus and The Secret of Suzanne in English. Philadelphia excelled with Falstaff and The Marriage of Figaro last winter. All children want to understand the words when they go to Hansel and Gretel, a fact recognized years ago by the touring San Carlo Company...