Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most significant artistic achievement was the opera itself, which Mr. Goldovsky and a similar cast lied presented for the first time in America at Tanglewood last summer. Like several other Mozart operas, notably "Cosi Fan Tutte," "Idomeneo" is a diamond lying neglected amidst the track of the nineteenth century. The orchestral passages are exceptional even for Mozart, and the choral writing is superior to that in his more famous operas. As presented in Mr. Goldovsky's adaptation, the first act was highly conventionalized and contained too much plot exposition in the form of recitative--arias were scarce, in fact...
According to Kitty, the production will attempt to get away from the traditional nineteenth century. Hamlet, a middle-aged romantic with a mature, if resigned philosophy of life. The HTW Hamlet will be adapted to a college-audience and to a college cast...
Hurling a provocative challenge that touches every citizen at all American colleges and universities, the First Report of the President's Commission on Higher Education has cleared the air of Nineteenth Century dogma by announcing that these institutions "can no longer consider themselves merely the instrument for producing an intellectual elite; they must become the means by which every citizen . . . is enabled and encouraged to carry his education as far as his native capacities permit...
...dangerous symptoms of dramatic activity broke out during the first half of the nineteenth century. A certain Holworthy was famed among members of the Class of 1848 as an actor for his displays in Hasty Pudding mock trials, but Holworthy himself had never considered his achievements theatrical. "I don't remember any plays," he said. "In that time I do not think plays of any kind would have been permitted...
John Cogan, the first Crimson harrier to finish, wound up tenth, Bill Baker was eleventh, and Captain Huna Rosenfeld was twelfth. Ardan Albee--nineteenth--and John Anderson--twenty first--completed the Varsity scoring...