Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg is a devilishly difficult opera to perform well. At the very least, Composer Richard Wagner wrote requirements for a heldentenor of exceptional stamina, and power enough to vault the massed forces of the Wagnerian orchestra, and a baritone of considerable theatrical skill to probe the complex character of Cobbler Hans Sachs, one of grand opera's most intriguing heroes. It can also benefit greatly from a well-drilled chorus and properly poetic settings. Last week an audience at the Metropolitan Opera House saw a Meistersinger that had all of these attributes and more...
...famous recent productions of Die Meistersinger-the one mounted by Wieland Wagner in Bayreuth in 1956-the tendency was to reduce realistic sets to a minimum. Last week's resplendent production,* with sets and costumes by Designer Robert O'Hearn, took a different tack-and was far more successful. The soaring stone columns and arches of St. Catherine's Church in Act I looked enduringly solid-a far cry from the standard productions in which they tend to flap and billow like a clothesline of wet wash. The steeply gabled gingerbread houses of Nürnberg...
...below the belt, at American diplomats in his book The Ugly American, swings just as hard at scientists advising the Pentagon. Walter Groteschele, Fail-Safe's villain, is a caricature of a scientist, who advocates preventive war in scholarly treatises and exults in private: "Knowing you have to die, imagine how fantastic it would be to have the power to take everyone else with you. The untold billions of them. They are murderees: born to be murdered and don't know it. And the person with his finger on the button is the one who knows...
Speaking last night before the Harvard Law School Forum, the Rev. Martin Luther King declared "we have come a long long way in the fight for integration, but we have a long, long way to go. If democracy is to live, segregation must die...
...Negro himself must play a greater role of leadership in his fight for equality, a fight which must be characterized by non-violence. "Non-violent action gives a moral value to resistance." If necessary, the negro should be prepared to die, but should be prepared to "die quietly...