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...Beecham cannot be dismissed merely as a brilliant swashbuckler or the self-constituted enfant terrible of music, for the Beecham legend stands on a rock of solid musical achievement. Most conductors specialize in symphonic music or opera, one or the other. Beecham specializes in both. What is more, he has probably forced through, against the odds, more performances of new or unknown works in both fields than any other two British conductors. He is, further, an impresario in the grand manner and tradition. He has given or raised vast sums of money for a multitude of large-scale musical undertakings...
...creating have in the state that was then the U.S.'s "enfant terrible"--Oklahoma. Governor Walton, backed by President Coolidge, had proclaimed martial law and forbidden the state legislature to meet while he was trying to curb the Klan's activities. Later the Corfu incident, the World Court, Philippines independence, and French separation of the Rhineland were to give the freshmen plenty to think about...
...Caesar is a man past being tempted by a minx, rather than one who declines the gambit for fear of being hurt. Vivien Leigh's Cleopatra is a willful, naughty, coaxing, charming child, more fully characterized than Lilli Palmer's perfect cuddling kitten, but almost as much enfant terrible as budding jemme fatale...
...when India was partitioned in 1947 and the ancient Punjab Capital, Lahore, went to Pakistan. The Indian province decided to build an entirely new city for its capital. Such planned capitals are rare. Peter the Great built St. Petersburg on piles in uninhabited marshes; Major Pierre Charles l'Enfant designed Washington for the Potomac swamps, and a U.S. architect, Walter Burley Griffin, drew up the plans for Australia's Canberra, which replaced a sheep station in a wide, shallow river valley...
Mayer first consulted microclimatologists, who study climate in specific areas; with their help he hopes to achieve what Major l'Enfant failed to accomplish in Washington-an arrangement of buildings that will catch any stray breeze...