Word: mer
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...Italian composer Giro Pinsuti experimented with the theme in his Mer-cante di Venezia in 1873. After that there was Deffès' Jessica (1898), Foerster's Jessika (1905), Alpaerts' Shylock (1913), and Hahn's Le Marchand de Venise (1935). The various operatic treatments of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice have one quality in common: they have all but disappeared from the stage. Last week yet another Merchant had arrived-with a good chance of beating the old jinx. The composer: Italy's Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco...
Lockspeiser, who has written a biography of Debussy, said "his life-long obsession" with the writings of Poe influenced the "musical psychology" of his works, especially Peleas et Mellgande, La Cathedrale Engloutle and La. Mer. Poe's fascination with dreams and sexual symbolism cast a "subtle and profound influence over his works," and two of them, The Devil in the Belfry and The Fall of the House of Usher, so affected the composer that he used them as the basis of two never-completed operas...
...embarrassment that it caused the U.S., the Moscow sideshow was not unexpected. Last July, when Martin and Mitchell did not come back from a sum mer vacation, NSA men broke into Mitchell's home in Laurel, Md. They found the place a shambles, and they were par ticularly intrigued by a set of safe-deposit keys. Maryland State Police got a court order to open Mitchell's safe-deposit box in the State Bank of Laurel, and there, indeed, was the typewritten defection statement...
...follow the sit-ins?" asked Lee. "Just imagine if all the people who live in the slums of our great cities were to leave their tenements, take chairs into the middle of the streets and sit out under the stars on some fine sum mer evening at 5:30? Perhaps then, when traffic ground to a halt and commuters were late for supper, we could convince some of the bankers and landlords and businessmen who make their livings in the cities but live in the suburbs to take a walk through the slums and see the conditions which prevail...
Specialist John Coleman has made the most of his market opportunities. He is not far behind Millionaire Joseph Kennedy (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) in his contributions to Catholic charities. He is a Democrat, has an apartment on Manhattan's Park Avenue as well as a sum mer home in Spring Lake, N.J. Coleman himself takes an almost personal pride in the market: "The fact that we have been able to maintain a continuous mar ket through all sorts of conditions, including the Depression, is the greatest thing anybody ever saw." But the best thing, says Specialist Coleman, "is that...