Word: mia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...walked to his podium. The orchestra's applause calmed him down, and in a flash he called, "Duetto!" Soprano Herva Nelli and Tenor Jan Peerce began singing the last-act duet from Un Ballo in Maschera. Here & there the maestro stopped to shout a fiery "Vergogna!" or "Madonna mia!" and the group diligently began again. Finally, everybody managed to get through the duet according to Toscanini's demands, and the piece was recorded...
While the MIA and WIA serve certain social purposes, the most important student organization is the Campus Affairs Committee. Composed of student leaders and faculty members, the CAC serves as a college watchdog, allotting funds to organizations, recognizing new clubs, and determining policy for all social affairs and activities. All dates on the social calendar must be cleared through the CAB, while the group even has a little used but important vote power over the Student Council. The Council handles all class elections for the College, and sets up committees for the CAC. None of Ohio's activities...
...week, nonetheless, was a steamy ballet treatment of A Streetcar Named Desire, performed by the new troupe of Mia Slavenska and Frederic Franklin, onetime stars of the Ballet Russ de Monte Carlo...
Much of Patria Mia has the unexpected charm of a period piece, because in it the 28-year-old Pound (frequently sounding more like 18) tilts at dragons long since slain and forgotten. At the time of his writing (1913), Pound averred, there was not an artist worth a damn at work in America. "Any pleasant thing in symmetrical trousers" passed for poetry; American literature was pervaded by "magazitis," i.e., the dry rot of the high-toned magazines. Sneered Pound: "It is well known that in the year of grace 1870, Jehovah appeared to Messrs. Harper...
...reader of Patria Mia will regretfully conclude that someone should have tethered Ezra Pound in time, before, like the arts of Zammbuck, he went...