Word: miceli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spotlights swim through the corn as two men break through and hurl themselves to the ground. The lights move away, the sirens fade, the men get to their feet, dust themselves off, and begin the harrowing story of long-suffering, downtrodden George and his simple-minded buddy Lennie. Of Mice and Men is once more on the stage, not as a play but an opera...
...music by Carlisle Floyd and given its premiere last month by the Seattle Opera, Of Mice and Men is the most moving musical drama to come out of America since the natives of Catfish Row tangled with Porgy and Bess back in 1935. The post-Porgy years have offered little in the way of challenge. There are Gian-Carlo Menotti's works, including The Medium, The Consul, The Saint of Bleecker Street, Help, Help, the Globolinks. Also Douglas Moore's The Ballad of Baby Doe, Robert Ward's The Crucible and Floyd's Susannah...
...Withering Heights (1958) and the Civil War Reconstruction story of The Passion of Jonathan Wade (1962) demanded largeness, even grandiloquence. Floyd's talent lay in revealing smaller situations, personal relationships. Since John Steinbeck's interests were in much the same area, Floyd's selection of Of Mice and Men is a perceptive return to the type of work that made Susannah seem a one-shot success...
Depression-depressed. Turned down by the San Francisco Opera, Floyd's revised version of Of Mice and Men is already scheduled for fall production by the bustling young Kansas City Lyric Theater. In the meanwhile, Seattle operagoers greeted the dramatic yarn of George and Lennie with tense attention. At opera's end, Lennie and George are crouched in the same cornfield. In a final gesture of love, George shoots Lennie to save him from the lynchers, and the curtain falls after the final pistol shot...
...response to evidence linking some herbicides to birth defects in rats and mice, the Federal government recently restrietel the use of "2,4,5-T" by Government agencies. Another chemical, "2,4-D," currently popular in military spraying programs, has also come under fire from scientists, but has not been similarly restricted...