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...soldiers disguise themselves as Armenians, or something, and try to seduce each other's girl. After a longish time which passes quickly with this stellar cast, they execute the scheme successfully. Alas! Traiterous, damned women! No, not really, because Mozart was really worried about his wife while he was writing this opera (some say she was the biggest attraction for visiting firemen in Baden toward the end of the eighteenth century) but Mozart loved her. So the troupe with a wonderfully contagious stoicism, sings, "Happy is the man who takes everything as it comes...
...swift passage of time, there is an understandable loss of continuity which accounts in part for the sense of slowness. But a welter of buccolic buffoonery only enhances the discontinuity which in a production of some length (running time is four hours) is regrettable. Schmidt might have cut the longish fourth act or at least dropped one of two dance sequences...
...QUIET ENEMY, by Cecil Dawkins. These seven longish stories about recessive but exotic people of the inland South have the special power, which usually belongs to poetry, of haunting the mind...
...seven longish stories have the special power, which usually belongs to poetry, of haunting the mind. They concern simple people-old Negroes, religious cranks, illiterate feudists, solitary operators of no-hope junkyards, and the quietly desperate people who hope to sell hamburgers by luring stray tourists with a caged eagle, a chained raccoon and a stuffed rattlesnake...
...generally been milder than prewar downturns they have by no means been insignificant: they have certainly been more serious than any experienced in Western Europe since the war." Thus, in the current issue of London's Westminster Bank Review, British Economist Christopher W. McMahon, 34, enters upon "a longish look backwards and forwards" at the U.S. economy-and his foreign view proves that in economics as in a fast-moving football game, things often look different to the spectators than to the players...