Word: likes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where sets, costumes and staging are all unfamiliar but also is presenting a revival of Manon, Massenet's work, which was last produced during the 1953-54 season. A new production requires at least three stage rehearsals with orchestra, sets, costumes and light. A revival of a difficult work like Manon is usually given three stage rehearsals with orchestra, two of these in full dress. However, this week, four operas return to the repertory from last year and these each require at least one dress rehearsal. The past four weeks at the Met were fraught with tension produced...
...Metropolitan stage. Unfortunately, however, Messel's scenery was designed for an earlier production at Glyndebourne and has merely been adapted to the Metropolitan stage. Scaling up a small set doesn't always work at the Met and the second act decor, the boudoir of the Contessa, looks like an oversized parlor of an English country home...
Watson predicted that the Faculty would completely disagree with the Student Council committee's stand that Friday is not a working night. He pointed out that in the past 30 years, student action has only changed the parietal hours twice. "The Faculty members simply don't like to be bothered," he added...
MacLeish distinguished between the sound and sense of words, pointing out that only a few words in any language (like "buzz" or "hum") have a sound which fits their meaning...
...membership includes many types of people: solid citizen businessman, who does not want his financial interests subverted by politicians who might try to squeeze more taxes for their own profit; the young, liberal Democrat, favoring a clean city government, free of the bad qualities of bossism; and natural minorities like Jews and Negroes who see the CCA as a road by which they can express and protect their interests...