Word: opera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans on political grounds, and did not allow investigations of religious or racial backgrounds. At first he refused to conduct before Nazi audiences at all, but when obliged to go so, he accepted his fees and turned them over to the Resistance. He was asked to conduct at the Opera by its director, Jacques Rouche, but refused because of the many known collaborators associated with the organization. Munch has been made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor for his services to French music...
Experts on the panel discussion that evening will include John Ciardi, Briggs Copeland associate professor of English, speaking for contemporary poets; Boris Goldovsky, president of the New England Opera Association, who will argue for twentieth-century musicians; and Harley Perkins, president of the Independent Artists, representing all artists...
Friday night's session will be held in New Lecture Hall and is open to the public. John Ciardi, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English Composition, and Boris Goldovsky, president of the New England Opera Association, will speak...
Robert E. Tomasello of Dudley Hall--Jubilee Committee, Treasurer, Class Committee, Crimson Key Society, Dudley Hall House Committee, Harvard Catholic Club, House football, House hockey, Freshman football. Thomas Weesner of Lowell House--National Scholarship and a Pepsi-Cola Scholarship holder, RYRC, business staff of the Lowell House opera, House play, a House agent for the sale of NSA purchase cards, Union Debate Council. Miles I. Levine of Lowell House Business Manager of 1951 Freshman Red Book, House Dance Committee. James P. Johnson of Kirkland House Freshman soccer, Varsity soccer. Kirkland House Committee, House athletics, PBH, Outing Club...
Strangers' occasional virtuosity cannot conceal its flaws. As a Cuban Gestapo man, Pedro (The Pearl) Armendariz gives a fine performance. But when he starts making bestial passes at Jennifer Jones while Garfield hides in the cellar, he is only one jump ahead of old-fashioned horse opera. Another kernel of corn: Garfield's big death scene, highlighted by Gilbert Roland's brokenhearted requiem in calypso rhythm and some highfalutin dialogue delivered by Miss Jones. Never for a moment a dull movie, Strangers is often too facile or too far away from strict artistic honesty. Coming from...