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Purists and prudes insist the last labial touch should be a chaste left-right-left to the cheek. But last week, as Munich's two-month pre-Lenten fling of Fasching came to a final, beery crescendo, the partners were directly on target...
...Bold & Excellent. Parsifal has been Indiana's chef-d'oeuvre every Lenten season since 1949, two years after Wilfred C. Bain, 56, became dean of the music school. The opera is one of Wagner's most inaccessible, but Bain has an ample notion of his school's grandeur, and each year Indiana's Parsifal aspires to more. Last week, with five faculty members in the leading roles, a somber, brooding mirage of sets by Mario Cristini (who spent 25 years with the San Carlo Opera in Naples), a cast of 66, a 62-voice chorus...
...Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro warn that continued inflation may ruin Europe's economy by weakening its currencies and shutting off its world markets. Even Pope Paul, in an unusual message last month, took note of Italy's inflationary spiral by recommending austerity both because of "the Lenten season and the state of things in this country...
Christian ecumenism also spills over to include Jews: one recent Lenten speaker at the Kansas City church was Rabbi Alexander Graubart of Congregation Beth Shalom; Jewish and Protestant scholars lecture at an eight-week Catholic Bible course in Tulsa, and Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati has 25 Christian students working for graduate degrees...
...showed him something. All three started out the door together, but then Argoud tried to pull away. The other two grabbed him, hauled him out to the street, knocked him down, threw him into an auto and drove away. At the height of Munich's riotous pre-Lenten celebrations, any policeman might have shrugged it off as just another Fasching brawl...