Word: grail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wieland's garden was scant and ghostly, was seen only through a veil. He marched his knights of the Grail in from the depths of the huge (200 ft.) stage in near darkness. But even traditionalists had to admit that the result of it all was a Parsifal of strong simplicity, rich with the mystery of its Grail theme. Conductor Hans Knappertsbusch and the orchestra gave a faultless musical performance, and young (30) U.S. Bass-Baritone George London sang a magnificent Amfortas. Glowed Wagner Biographer Ernest Newman, 82, critic of the London Sunday Times and a Bayreuth regular...
...time the final curtain fell on the Holy Grail drama, many a listener was dabbing at his eyes. Those who could compare it with the Metropolitan Opera's traditional Good Friday Parsifal (untraditionally absent this year) found the Bloomington version staged and acted more cleanly, if musically less professional...
...newsprint-starved Britain, whose press does an indifferent-to-bad job of covering the U.S., probably only the Guardian would have given Cooke the elbow room for his leisurely essays on everything from Tom Dewey ("a certified public accountant in pursuit of the Holy Grail") to Babe Ruth's death ("He was Hercules with bat in hand, but he was Hercules done by Disney") and the suppressed Briticisms of Anglophobe Robert R. McCormick ("Still talking with a trace of British accent, taking afternoon tea, wearing a wrist watch on each hand, and being forever to his friends known...