Word: faithless
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Cosi fan tutte's plot is an absurd and tedious business about how two Italians prove their sweethearts faithless by disguising themselves as Albanians, and winning the girls handily. The New Opera acted as if its efforts with this situation were funny, and as if 18th-Century gags in Italian were comprehensible to Broadway. But the singers, only one of whom was over 40, voiced their airs and ensembles with Mozartean freshness and purity. Only one had big-time stage experience-Ina Souez, who was born Ina Rains in Denver, and had sung in Cosi jan tutte in Glyndebourne...
...been playwright (Thomas Mitchell), a dapper drugstore cowboy (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), a lady of the evening (Rita Hayworth). In a Broadway honky-tonk they tie up with a small-time larcenist (John Qualen) about to commit suicide rather than face punishment for filching $3,000 to pamper his faithless wife. Before the evening is over they unite to win Qualen another $3,000, get themselves into some tense brushes with gamblers...
...writer who agrees completely with Adler and Cram about the destruction wrought by the prevalence of empirical nationalism in intellectual circles and its penetration down through the educational system. Yet, in his latest book, "Chart for Rough Water", he takes the stand for which undergraduates are accused of being faithless and skeptical, and says, "We must try, it seems to me plain, by every intelligent means to avoid physical involvement...
Mistresses & Spinsters. Why in every part of the world is the French woman generally rated high, whatever at times be the world's rating of French men? She comes elegant and plain, extravagant and thrifty, faithless and devoted, wanton and maternal-yet so do women in plenty of other lands. A good reason for her rating is that the French woman is unique in her talent for creating, either as love-object or as mistress of the home, enduring human relations of exceptional harmony and interest. In the main she contrives to satisfy-her lover, her husband, her children...
...faithless friends, phony strangers and one's own ancestors are met with-and of course...