Word: les
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conservative the British. They are astounding in their ability to take even the tortured vision of a post like Rimbaud--as Britten did in his Les Illuminations--and convert it to some planning mood pieces. When presenting a work not in English, the orchestral management ought to provide text translations. If only to avoid fooling the audience into thinking the intermission has arrived (as happened after the Parade movement...
...cavernous War Memorial Opera House of the parent company that Adler has really made a showing. He presented the first major U.S. stagings of such operatic landmarks as Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten, Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Berlioz's Les Troyens. He was the first to put such now celebrated Europeans as Birgit Nilsson, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Geraint Evans on the American stage. He has also led in giving major roles to relatively unknown U.S. singers, among them Leontyne Price. Says the grateful Price: "I sort of grew...
...however, only nudity has reached epidemic proportions. The monokini, which first appeared in St.-Tropez two years ago has spread this year to the beaches of tonier Antibes, Juan-les-Pins and Sardinia. By now the fad has become so familiar that Le Figaro's food critic has commented that "a breast leaning into a local salad is as removed from sexuality as a nose, an ear or a heel bone...
...amphitheater-shaped apartment tower that curves around a nude-swimming pool. So far this year, some 25,000 nudists, about half of them foreigners, have visited the complex for a few carefree days of freedom from the world of those whom they refer to with mild contempt as "les textiles...
Died. Jules Remains, 86, French epic novelist, dramatist and poet and founder of the philosophy of unanimism; in Paris. Though his massive output since the turn of the century included successful plays, philosophical essays and mildly erotic fiction, Romains' masterwork was his 27-volume historical novel, Les Hommes de Bonne Volonte (Men of Goodwill). Fifteen years in the writing, with a cast of over 400 characters, the work embodies Remains' unanimist philosophy that man can only be fully defined in the context of the religious, familial and social groups to which he belongs. After completing the final volumes...