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...opera's prolog Lulu is represented by a fearsome wriggling snake, an eternal destroyer, according to Composer Berg who makes her just as horrid in every scene which follows. She destroys one man after another, commits a murder which lands her in prison, weasels her freedom only to philander in Paris with gamblers, procurers, swindlers. End comes in a sordid London attic where Lulu is brutally murdered by Jack the Ripper. Berg's orchestra then sounds out a shuddering scream. The New York Philharmonic took the cue faithfully, startled half its subscribers who still had to hear Soprano...
...horrid imperfection...
Those members of the student body who have been eschewing subway trips or have been cowering in the inside corners of their rooms for fear of horrid seismographic tragedies need no longer do so according to L. Don Leet, director of the University station at Oak Ridge. There will be no further disturbances...
Propped up in bed with their breakfast trays and morning papers, sweet-smelling ladies were last week struck by horrid news: one of these days, when they buy one of the crown-shaped bottles of Prince Matchabelli perfumes or redden their lips with his lipsticks, they may be supporting the Soviet Government, helping toward the proletarian revolution...
...birds. A truckman's wife counted 30 at one time through her field glasses. Ornithologist Alfred Otto Gross, who had never seen more than four eagles together, went skeptically down from Bowdoin College, beheld with his own marveling eyes 25 great scavengers grouped at their horrid feast. Reporting to the National Association of Audubon Societies last week that migrating as well as Maine eagles composed the group, Ornithologist Gross said: "The loud screams and powerful wing beats of these giant birds were an experience never to be forgotten...