Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Menotti intended to blend it all into a witty comic opera. But when The Last Savage was given its world premiére at Paris' Opera-Comique last week, the satiric fun was blanketed with annoyed disappointment. In his first comedy since The Telephone in 1947, Menotti had fallen well below his usual mark, with a tiresome, lurching, seldom funny libretto and a derivative score that even in its academic jokes was hardly musique sérieuse...
According to the fund's chairman, Howard L. Schecter '65, student response "has generally been great." Schecter complained however, that contributions from the Freshman Union have fallen far short of those from any of the Houses. He said that, among the Houses, Perdew's own Kirkland, Winthrop, Eliot, and Adams had been extremely generous...
...battle called Fallen Timbers near a British fort in northwestern Ohio, General Wayne's disciplined infantry routed a large Indian army. The pursuing Americans saw the gates of the British fort close in the face of the fleeing Indians. Indian trust of their British allies disappeared in smoking rage, and their attacks ceased. The national government had proved itself. Separatist sentiments evaporated. Less than a decade later, Napoleon sold the U.S. a Louisiana Territory he couldn't have held. The flatboat and Fallen Timbers had made it clear who owned America...
Little variation is allowed at a formal affair. Everyone is supposed to wear the whole works,--except for the top hat, which, alas, has fallen into disfavor...
...wake of its stupendous blunder, Find-A-Bird chose to lie low. A source close to Find-A-Bird officials, however, reported that several of the corporation's commissions had been withdrawn and that its stock had fallen off considerably...