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...even if this staging of the opera were somehow reworked into coherence, musical troubles would mar it beyond hope. I'm well aware of the difficulties in mounting amateur operatic productions: musicians are hard to come by, rehearsals are difficult to arrange, and there's no money to pay anyone for their time and hard work. And performing an operatic score is an effort of a different magnitude than, say, performing a symphony--the music not only has to be true to its own aesthetics but must also follow the contours of a dramatic performance...
Professor Chaisson of the Astronomy Dept. should be commended for having the courage to speak out against the space shuttle and the increasing militarization of space (Crimson, Mar...
...Father of His Country, but also as the Stepfather of His Country and the Father of Pittsburgh. At least four U.S. Presidents were known as "His Accidency" (Tyler, Fillmore, Arthur and Andrew Johnson). That name, while suggestive, is still a cut above "His Fraudulency" (Rutherford B. Hayes). Mar tin Van Buren was alternately called "Whiskey Van," because he could hold his liquor, and "The American Talleyrand" (though Talleyrand was never known as the French Van Buren). We will not discuss Wobbly Willie McKinley or Old Rough and Ready...
...were turned away.) Sophie may have been the unwitting object of another American worry: that young single women would become prostitutes. So great was that concern that if a woman claimed she was engaged, immigration officials actually hunted up her fiance and saw to it that they were mar ried before relinquishing control over the newcomer. Authorities wired Sophie's un cle in Madison before letting her visit relatives in New York. The first days in Manhattan were overwhelming. Sophie had never seen subways, trolley cars, coal stoves, pineapples and mobs of people "so friendly you did not have...
...Shootout at Dzivarasekwa Township last week was one of the violent encounters between rival remnants of guerrilla armies that all too regularly have continued to mar the peace of independent Zimbabwe. Coming when it did, it added to the tension already surrounding the murder trial of Cabinet Minister Edgar Tekere that begins in Salisbury this week. The manner in which the trial of the radical and powerful Minister of Manpower, Planning and Development is conducted, and its eventual outcome, will be widely regarded as a crucial test of Mugabe's control over his promising, but fractious, young country. Said...