Word: iddings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia wanted to start a people's opera. Four years ago he did - the non-profit New York City Opera Company -and hired an unsung director named Laszlo Halasz to run it: he was the only applicant who had no pull. But he id have push - enough push to start a small operatic revolution...
...cause. This week, in tense Calcutta and elsewhere in Bengal, worshipers of the goddess Durga will celebrate her festival with clay images and ceremonial parades. Durga is the good side of the same ambivalent goddess of which Kali is the evil face.* In this same week Moslems will celebrate Id-el-Atha, their version of the story of Abraham and Isaac. Usually they sacrifice cows, but this week many, lest the Hindus be offended, plan again to sacrifice sheep.† Even so, the two coincident festivals might touch off killing in Bengal, which, along with Bihar and the United Provinces...
...Wudderful way to sped a huddybood, isid id...
...their belief that such a goal con be attained only buy positive action of the part of the Federal Government. Economic life has become too complex and too impersonal for attempts at improvement by lesser agencies to be effective. The precise extent of governmental control over economic activities id a matter for dispute even among Liberals, but the median of their beliefs would probably lie close to mild Socialism, encompassing supervision of essential industry, utilities, and basic resources...
Ibsen's "John Gabriel Borkman" is the third of the three plays to be offered by the newly formed American Repertory Theater during its Boston run. Although the A. R. T. was organized to bring to the American stage plays which otherwise might not reach the boards, one id tempted to ask, as with their production of "Henry VIII," why this particular play was chosen for revival. For aside from its value as a specimen of Ibsen's development as a playwright, "John Gabriel Borkman" is a sodden and scarcely believable play...