Word: modell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today's Met is capable of extremes of success and failure. Its record with Wagner, for example, is a wrecked new production and a brilliant one in the last two seasons. Last year's Tannhauser remains a model of creative fidelity to the essence of an opera; this year's Flying Dutchman is a travesty, fusing roles and entirely subverting the opera's dramatic and musical content. In its casts, too, the Met's standards fluctuate widely. It's a long way down from the near-ideal Parsifal of this spring to the dismal Norma playing at the same time...
...trancendence of their bond, they must use the one tool Shakespeare gives them--his poetry. Its power is extraordinary, as when it switches from the prevalent formal diction to simple, direct monosyllables in the Act II meeting between the two lovers--so straightforward that its language has become a model for greeting cards and sentimental wallposters. Shakespeare never lets us doubt that the love of Romeo and Juliet is the offspring not of their hearts but of their dreams, their words...
Thayer took the mask used in fencing for his model and then went to a Cambridge tinsmith, who constructed the first mask in the history of the game. The mask was given a test run in the gym with satisfactory results and a new epoch began when Tyng first wore it in a game played at Lynn against a team billed as the "Live Oaks...
...goes on to envision a set of student-faculty committees as forums for open discussion of issues affecting student life and education. The Fainsod Committee thus called for a student voice in shaping policy related to student housing, extracurricular activities, and broad educational policy, but it specifically rejected a model of total democracy. Instead, the committee argued to exclude students from voting on such matters as tenure appointments and final curriculum decisions, because, it said, a professionally trained and experienced Faculty would make more informed decisions...
...male homosexual model, acclaimed as one of the world's best-dressed men, cites examples of fashion takeovers. "The first time I saw men wearing Adidas running shoes as part of casual wear was in the homosexual community on Fire Island several years ago. Now it has become a fashion staple in the straight world." Gays were among the first to wear baggy white painters' pants, though such garments are now being bought by heterosexual men and women. In more elegant ensembles, the wearing of silk scarves with sport coats or suits began among gays and is now catching...