Word: friedman
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...EUGENE FRIEDMAN North Hollywood, Calif...
...Samuel Friedman, the candidate, was banned with the statement "it is not deemed advisable to invite Mr. Friedman to speak on campus at this time." Although supposed to debate representatives of the Republican and Democratic parties, Friedman, according to the statement, was "not considered of equal stature" to them. UCLA authorities assumed they could have a well-rounded debate without Friedman's presence...
...Samuel Friedman, the candidate, was banned with the statement "it is not deemed advisable to invite Mr. Friedman to speak on campus at this time." Although supposed to debate representatives of the Republican and Democratic parties, Friedman, according to the statement, was "not considered of equal stature" to them. UCLA authorities assumed they could have a well-rounded debate without Friedman's presence...
...Darlin' Aida (music by Giuseppe Verdi; book & lyrics by Charles Friedman) shifts its scene from the Memphis, Egypt of Aida to Memphis, Tenn. in 1861. Aida, Amneris and Radames of Verdi's opera become respectively a lovely slave girl (Elaine Malbin), her imperious young mistress (Dorothy Sarnoff) and a Confederate officer (Howard Jarratt) who loves the slave girl but is engaged to her mistress. The story is a tangle of Negro uprisings, hooded night riders, beatings, and death for the lovers...
...undertaking My Darlin' Aida, Librettist Friedman was frankly inspired by the success of Carmen Jones. But there are great differences, not just between him and the much defter Oscar Hammerstein II, but between the parent operas themselves. Carmen has a vivid, earthy, human story; Aida's is unreal and faraway. Carmen, again, has the theater blood of the opera comique; Aida possesses both the stiffness and the elevation of truly grand opera. Where many operas-La Traviata, Tosca, La Boheme-might be at home on Broadway, not only must the story of Aida be revamped; the finer values...