Word: pit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...threw a harsh light on the dangers inherent in trial by jury. He sat a national audience in the jury box and let them find out for themselves what an abyss of conscience the plank of constitutional law is laid across, and how it feels in the pit of an honest juryman's stomach when he has to walk that plank...
There is nothing like a man in the secluded French girls' school depicted in Pit of Loneliness. Depravity and tense moments with Simone Simon at the Brattle. Script by Colete...
Adapted for the screen by Colette, Pit of Loneliness is a sad tale of frustrated affection and desire in a 19th century girls' boarding school. Inadequate sub-title translations of the French outline a depressing picture of adolescent girls and their teachers in fertile, maleless isolation...
...double-yoked war horses, Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci. Performed more than 200 times at the Metropolitan Opera, they were now rounding out a season that had only two more weeks to run. The casts were studded with familiar names, and in the pit was Fausto Cleva, veteran of the Met's Italian wing. But on this routine occasion the audience was treated to a beautifully sung, splendidly paced evening for which much of the credit went to two middle-aged American singers named Warren and Tucker...
...kind of continuous stream of consciousness. Now he would like to return to his home in Florence, Italy to pursue his meandering musical consciousness as time and money permit. This winter, however, his fortunes were so low that he was forced to take a job fiddling in the pit orchestra of Leonard Bernstein's Candide...