Word: diese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twisted Roads. While Justine is in the process of finding herself, those around her are losing their heads. Her complaisant husband goes quietly mad: her current lover, an itinerant Irish schoolmaster, betrays a tubercular girl friend and she dies; her first seducer, Capodistria, whose memory has obsessed her all along...
¶ The Panama Canal Zone, scene of modern medicine's victory over malaria, has reported 67 cases since June 1. Partly explained by a drought that has turned lakes into shallow, mosquito-breeding pud-dies, the outbreak is largely due to changes in control measures in surrounding Republic of...
Menotti: The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore (Chorus and instrumental ensemble conducted by Thomas Schippers in cooperation with the New York City Ballet; Angel). Menotti's bittersweet madrigal fable of a lonely poet's struggle with "the indifferent killers of the Poet's dreams" seems almost...
This curious and amusing book is billed as a novel, but might just as accurately be called a memoir, a short-story collection or a religious tract. The 37-year-old author is the daughter of Britain's pinko Pundit Konni Zilliacus, Laborite Member of Parliament. During her untrammeled...
In the opera's climactic moment, Moses causes the golden calf to collapse onstage ("Be gone, you image of powerlessness"). In the third act (not performed in Zurich because Schoenberg never completed the music for it) he denounces Aaron for having used God as a means to human ends...