Word: dimitris
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...historical drama, part revolutionary tract, Modest Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov is a truly original epic that brings old Russia startlingly to life. It is the semihistorical tale of a Kremlin politician who attains his country's throne by murdering the czar's only heir, the boy Dimitri. Filled with remorse, fear and delusion, Boris dies a crazed death as a people's revolution, led by a false Dimitri, prepares to overthrow him. Powerfully scored, Boris has no peers in Russia and precious few in all of opera. Yet for close to a century, Mussorgsky...
...bassoons to accompany the troubled Boris, he had a somber, dry, psychologically adroit sound in mind that was infinitely more effective than the 60 or so strings and winds Rimsky thought sounded better. Mussorgsky used the harp only once -for the lush, quite beautiful scene between the Pretender Dimitri and the Polish princess Marina in Act II. It is a precise effect completely destroyed by Rimsky's use of the harp throughout the opera...
...aspect of insincerity about them." But Blass, along with two of the other designers, prescribed pin stripes for Rocky. "He would have new confidence in himself if he were to care how he looked and maybe people would start noticing him instead of his money," said Piero Dimitri helpfully. Don Robbie thought Rocky should show more old-fashioned flair. "I don't think he should bother with English tailoring...
Late last week the new Premier appointed Dimitri Bitsios as Foreign Minister. Bitsios is an experienced diplomat who worked on the 1960 Cyprus agreement and has been in charge of the foreign ministry since George Mavros resigned to campaign. Caramanlis' other Cabinet choices were viewed as solid professionals if somewhat disappointingly conservative. All are members of his own party...
Party officials explained that the notes had been sent to Prague, Budapest and Moscow not to protest but to inform the governments of the conspiracy trials. The Soviet deputy chief of mission in Belgrade, Dimitri Sevian, whom Tito had sent packing when he was still too piqued to be prudent, suddenly reappeared at his post. Finally, in what has become almost a ritual of pacification, the order went out to arrest Mihajlov...