Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deciding from the start to limit the repertory to rarely heard operas performed in their original language. Director Callaway set such a high standard with last year's staging of Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos that one critic feared listeners would expect a triumph every time. In fact there have been many triumphs, including standout productions of Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte and Monteverdi's Orfeo. Audience response matched the performances: paid season subscriptions rose from 322 in 1957 to nearly 2,000 this season...
...Piaf. like almost everyone who has ever heard her, Vicky is one of her fans. "Piaf." says she. "has the soul of all the poor. She gives you goose pimples...
Undoubtedly the average quality of our students has greatly improved. I have heard administrators of colleges in the South and West complain bitterly about the trek of high quality students to the Eastern prestige schools. This tendency is also reflected in the recent National Defense Education Act, which to some extent takes away from the student the choice of his college. If he wants a fellowship or a loan from the Federal Government, he must apply to the institution. Hence the student's freedom of choice is thus restricted, with a view to slowing up the gains of prestige colleges...
...shouted, and three times the crowd roared back. "Vive I'indépendance!" "Vive I'Afrique!" he shrieked in a voice close to frenzy. Once again, the cry was three times repeated. There was no reason for Toure to do more. The crowd had seen and heard him, and that was enough...
Snuggle Up. Since then, surprisingly little has been heard about the union. So far the two countries have not even set up the constitutional and economic commissions they promised. Instead, Guinea has been snuggling up to France, which has gradually swallowed its indignation over the man who said no. Last month Guinea negotiated a series of agreements which to a considerable extent place the country squarely back in the French Community. It will stay in the franc zone, keep its foreign exchange in the Banque de France, and it will once again get technical assistance from France. In lands where...