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...second performance gained in animation and sensitivity --improvements not totally shared by the singers. The cuts were extensive (the prologue and a half dozen scenes) but no doubt carefully chosen. It is a shame that a production as rare and as entertaining as this one, whatever its shortcomings, must perish after two evenings. Hopefully there is some basis to the rumor that Miss Caldwell may take her amazing Hippolyte to New York...
...alliance with the Common Market. Though barred from full membership by its peace treaty with Russia, Austria believes that even "associate" status in the EEC would mean tariffs so low that competition would force its sluggish home industries to become more efficient. Of course, some Austrian firms would perish in the process. "They'd die anyway eventually," shrugs Austrian EEC Envoy Eugen Buresch. As harsh as that prescription sounds, Austria seems willing to swallow it to bolster its economic strength...
...astronauts eventually soar be yond the moon to explore the distant planets, they will find Jupiter a dangerous place to visit. Even if they manage to withstand the tremendous pull of Jupiter's gravity and survive the frigid atmosphere of ammonia, methane, hydrogen and helium, they may well perish in the gigantic storms that sweep the planet every decade...
...went to the temple, drove out the money-changers, denounced the religious leaders. This alarmed the priesthood, and sealed his fate. The high priest Caiaphas had already said to the Sanhedrin: "It is in your interest that one man should die for the people, rather than the whole nation perish...
...compared woman's position today with that of Darwin, who gave up possible careers in medicine and in the ministry for years of introspection into the forming of species. "Women won't perish if they don't publish," she pointed out. "They just won't get a professorship...