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...technical assurance and emotional maturity, and at age 25 he appeared well on his way to becoming the most important operatic composer of the century. Then, in 1936, the Soviet authorities denounced the popular Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk as "muddle instead of music." Afraid not only for his livelihood but for his life, Shostakovich withdrew the earthy score, replaced it with a pallid adaptation called Katerina Ismailova, and never wrote another opera. It was not until 1979 that the original work surfaced; gradually, it has been replacing its successor in the international repertoire...
...opinion, pre-professionalism is so rampant that people fear hurting their careers or their livelihood," Gideonse says. "There are so many closeted people on The Crimson, U.C., so many closeted gov jocks, so many people scared of what will happen if they come...
...Bourg Mountains, where some 300 soldiers have spent the past four months hunting down peasant supporters of exiled President Aristide. Those who have escaped the region claim the army has conducted a scorched-earth policy in an attempt to deprive Aristide's allies of their food and livelihood. "They took everything we possessed," says Wilna Nelta Joseph, whose home in the town of Petit-Bourg was looted in April. "They left me with two empty hands." One farmer describes the destruction wrought by the army in the village of Petite-Riviere on April 25: "They burned down houses with everything...
...make matters worse, inflation is galloping along at 20% or more annually, eating away at every worker's livelihood. Says an official in Gansu, a northwest province: "Even cadres like me are beginning to feel the pain, and I earn at least three times as much as an ordinary worker...
...opera singers, teachers and rock and roll musicians, a clear voice is not just a means of communication, it's their livelihood. So when their vocal cords are attacked by enemies ranging from the common cold to cancer, many don't waste a minute and go straight to Dr. Stephen M. Zeitels, assistant processor of otology and laryngology at the Medical School...