Word: gian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last month by the Seattle Opera, Of Mice and Men is the most moving musical drama to come out of America since the natives of Catfish Row tangled with Porgy and Bess back in 1935. The post-Porgy years have offered little in the way of challenge. There are Gian-Carlo Menotti's works, including The Medium, The Consul, The Saint of Bleecker Street, Help, Help, the Globolinks. Also Douglas Moore's The Ballad of Baby Doe, Robert Ward's The Crucible and Floyd's Susannah. But on the whole, American opera has been lacking...
...Perhaps the Chinese could be persuaded to develop a one-strike capability by jumping off a 50-ft. platform. Surely this would be a gian' leap for mankind...