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Snoyer also suggested that students should "do your active tasks when you're the most tired and your most passive tasks when you're mos awake." SWARTHMORE...
...pluralism and internal struggle as a good thing. Some, following the footsteps of those several years ago who called for "normalization" (the emergence of Israel as a normal state with standard modern features), see pluralism as a shared chracteristic with the liberal West. Some offer additional justifications. A mos Oz in the recently translated In the Land of Israel: "A living civilization is a drama of struggle between interpretations, outside influences, and emphases, an unreleating struggle over what is the wheat and what is the chaff, rebellion for the sake of innovation, dismantling for the purpose of reassembling differently...
Rossini treats the story of Mosès and the Israelites in Egypt (with an improbable love interest between Mosès' niece and the Pharaoh's son) in a serious, restrained...
...including an exquisite canonic quintet in the second act, and, more noteworthy, an extended instrumental section at the end that wordlessly depicts the parting of the Red Sea and the Pharaoh's despair. The Philadelphia production has a solid cast, though Bass Jerome Hines, looking suitably Hestonian as Mosès, no longer has the weight of tone to allow him to sing the part with authority...
...Whereas Mosè is a nearly static drama-Rossini at times referred to it as an oratorio-La Donna del Lago (The Lady of the Lake) is an atmospheric treatment of Sir Walter Scott's poem. It is a bucolic score, with harps and hunting horns highlighting the composer's landscape painting. Donna, full of infectious melodies, is closer in spirit to the great comedies...