Word: petered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years. Says Johnson: "Why should we force a new venture when we can sell out the house with Rigoletto?" And, 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...
...time you are done with the opera-or by the time it is done with you -you have decided that Peter Grimes is the whole of bombing, machine-gunning, mining, torpedoing, ambushing humanity which talks about a guaranteed standard of living, yet does nothing but wreck its own works, degrade or pervert its own moral life and reduce itself to starvation...
...Peter share an apartment in New York after their discharge from the Army in 1945. They drink too much, stage noisy parties and most of the women they know wear round heels. Only Ted is a combat veteran. Lew, a public relations officer, and Peter, a radio scripter, fought the war with typewriters (Miller was a Yank editor). Ted, an unstable and unhappy rich kid, commits suicide; Lew gets a dose of anti-Semitism from the girl he loves and goes home to California; Peter can get any woman into bed but the one he cares for, hates...
Most combat veterans will probably find Peter's constant concern with his war-fractured sensitivity-and his glib articulateness about it-only annoying. And all veterans will look in vain for anything like real understanding of their difficulties and disappointments since victory...
...previous bout, Crimson 165-pounder Don Louria evened up the meet score by getting the only pin for Harvard with a crucifix over the Big Red's Charlie Strack in 4:21. In the final match of the afternoon Crimson captain Peter Fuller tied with Dick Clark to jump the score from...