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...Gian Carlo Menotti, death is the moment of the enlightenment that makes life worthwhile. In Labyrinth, his last television opera, he dwelt on the idea to the point of moral vertigo. If life is a grand hotel, he seemed to be saying, then death is its night clerk. Those who want keys to their rooms must die to get them...
...ready with more than just music. Hoping to cast a sympathetic spell for his program of Chopin and Schumann, Richter adorned the Salle Gaveau stage with flowers, tapestries and a battalion of immense candelabra-a naive little gesture that welcomed disaster by suggesting that the spirit of Liberace dwelt in the room beside...
...strange orgies. The rest was a tantalizing mixture of myths and the real civilization of the time. Euripides, in plays, described how Artemis rescued Iphigenia from being sacrificed by her father Agamemnon, and how later, at the behest of Athena, Iphigenia became Artemis' priestess at Vravron. She dwelt near some "holy stairs." and when she died, her grave was adorned "with braided gowns of softest weave" left to the shrine "by women dead with child...
...begun to take a turn for the better." but this tepid claim was not supported by statistics of any kind, much less by the grandiose and Utopian figures that were trumpeted to the world in 1960. Chou blamed China's food shortage on "serious natural calamities," and dwelt far more on overcoming present difficulties than on striving for future victories...
...senior citizen among U.S. magazines, the Saturday Evening Post often acts its age. The Post has never moved fast. Around Philadelphia, where it has dwelt for 232 years,* the Post still makes inter-plant deliveries by electric truck, a form of conveyance that went out everywhere else with the Stanley Steamer. The Post spurned cigarette ads until 1930, liquor ads until 1958. It has changed editors only twice this century. Last week the Post was preparing to change editors again...