Word: eighteenth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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State Attorney General Edward W. Brooke, at the request of the Massachusetts Obscene Literature Control Commission, has moved against John Cleland's eighteenth-century novel...
...pulled his purchase up the side of the building with ropes and maneuvered it in the window. "This could turn out to be a problem," Grossman said. "It wasn't too hard for me, but think what installing a big bed will mean for the people assigned to the eighteenth floor...
...word of explanation is needed. Haydn's Die Feuerbrunst was first performed in the late eighteenth century, when minuets were minuets and a man knew his place in society. Something happened, however, and the manuscript for the opera was lost. It turned up at Yale in an obscure collection several years ago, music and lyrics intact, but with the libretto missing. Some Yale graduate students promptly translated the songs and wrote a libretto around them. As might be expected of Yalies, they produced a real abortion--twentieth century humor built on eighteenth century rhymes, with an incredibly intricate plot...
...opera takes place in a small Austrian village in the middle of the eighteenth century. Hanswurst, a chimney-sweep, is madly in love with Columbina, whose father is Odario, the town money-grubber. Odario tries to wed his daughter to the richest man he can find, and he picks priggish Fleandar, a wig-curler in the guise of a nobleman. From there on, the plot takes every traditional turn imaginable, with ghosts peering from balconies and men dressed as women. By the end, of course, the good Hanswurst gains the hand of the sweet Columbina, Odario wins the coveted Stone...
...ribaldry Schwartz has injected. The greatest ham, and consequently the most enjoyable performer, is Walter Swap, who plays Hanswurst. He cavorts in five different disguises, and his impersonation of a crackly-voiced beggar woman in "I Beg of You" nearly steals the show. Sandra Robbins, as Columbina, sings the eighteenth century melodies beautifully, if a bit too softly, but she has trouble warming to the sex-ridden requirements of the twentieth-century script...