Word: grotto
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DEBUSSY: PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE (London; 3 LPs). Ernest Ansermet, conductor of 1'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, deftly evokes visions of the Poe-like castle and moon-bright grotto of Debussy's poetic opera. Musically light-textured, the opera is philosophically dark: early death is the destiny of the young lovers, appealingly sung by Dutch Soprano Erna Spoorenberg and French Tenor Camille Maurane...
Although Michell was only 10 feet below Miss Miller and Bennett, he was more than 250 feet from the surface. Late yesterday afternoon, William Karras, of the National Grotto Rescue Squad, reached Mitchell and reported that he was dead. Karras stated that "the dirty part of this thing is he didn't get hurt--just cold...
...freshmen, agonized and delighted, dashed up and down the stairs under cover of umbrellas. Meanwhile, the cascading water created a blue grotto effect on the ground floor...
...most money-shy college students, the height of gracious living consists of an off-campus pad furnished in Salvation Army modern. For a select group of Los Angeles-area students who are working their way through school, gracious living is a Tudor-styled mansion with 13 bathrooms, tennis courts, grotto, swimming pool, and five acres of grounds landscaped with large and small waterfalls and a lagoon...
...setting conceived by Broadway Stage Designer Jo Mielziner, the alabaster-white, 6,700-lb. sculpture occupies a sort of blue-velours-lined grotto, bathed in the beams of 50 spotlights. Toward the darker wings, 400 hanging half-watt blue lights gently twinkle, serving as automatic votive lamps. Behind the sculpture looms a 25-ft.-high theatrically draped cross, like a pious afterthought, while piped-in Gregorian chants tranquilize the atmosphere...