Word: needing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...halls before-in Strauss's Elektra and Salome. Bernard Rogers' The Warrior, which was flashed on & off last year, was nonsensically dissonant. Britten's music runs from perky jigs in the woodwinds to forceful, discordant barkings in the brass. The Met's soggy chorus would need a shot in the arm to handle some of the rounds, which sound like sea chanties and are as complex as a Bach fugue. Singers found themselves singing one duet written in different keys. There were none of the arias that most Italian operas hand out like a free lunch...
...unlike Broadway theaters which can play a hit nightly until it pays off, the Met plays each opera only four or five times a season. Even if Peter Grimes is a hit (as none of the ten most recent new operas has been at the Met), it would need a run of five years to break even...
American Help. It was still too early to tell whether Mayer's drastic program would boost exports, stop domestic inflation, and bring hoarded gold and dollars out of hiding to bolster the country's monetary system. Said Mayer: he would need about four months before he could tell whether the program would work...
...makes her bit as a middle-aged tramp as memorable as a well-aimed mule's kick. E. G. Marshall is excellent as Miss de Bergh's second husband, and the writers are to be congratulated for daring to suggest in a movie that a successful marriage need not be an eternity of ootchmagootch between a pair of raving beauties...
...under the jurisdiction of a School Committee headed by the Mayor. If there is no Mayor, the committee cannot function and any successful operation of the schools becomes impossible. Cambridge's educational program, recently the target of a lengthy report by Professor Simpson, is badly antiquated and desperately in need of overhauling. Any such revision of the school program can come only from the School Committee and for this reason alone the election of a Mayor is a matter that should be placed outside the realm of petty politics. Along with the general loss of prestige for Plan...