Word: libretti
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kept apart until the end by some silly rule, he filled the stage with fairies, half-fairies and mortals, aimed his barbed burlesque at the House of Lords and, through the character of the Lord Chancellor, at the legal profession (of which Gilbert himself was a member). Although his libretti were largely drawn from ideas in his earlier Bab Ballads, they show a greater infusion of dazzling wit and a range of metrical experimentation that was positively Aristophanic...
...wrong and selfish is a common one today. "I'm concerned that the world will eat itself up," says Hop Holmberg of Boston, who agrees with his wife Judy that two children are all they should have. Mrs. Mary Libretti of Madison, N.J., mother of eight, frequently encounters hostility. One woman told her that she and her brood were consuming "too much oxygen and too much space...
...Randall Jarrell, "Auden has begun to say 'We must realize that we are Hitler.' " Though Auden published his finest single poem in 1962 (In Praise of Limestone) and for the past twenty years poured out accomplished verse, as well as streams of essays, prefaces, and translations and libretti, the easy generalization has been endured that later Auden is a poor, doddering shadow of early Auden. History may reverse the judgment...