Word: pit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rehearsals and a willing cast drifted into Cambridge a week before the term began. Neumann began to attend every student orchestra concert in the area, collecting the best talent he could find for The Barber of Seville's own 25-piece orchestra which must fill Agassiz's non-existent pit...
...Carracci in a class with the greats: Michelangelo, Giorgione, Titian, Correggio, Raphael. But by the 19th century their repute had fallen so far that John Ruskin could dismiss their work contemptuously as "the scum of Titian." Bologna, proud of its own, decided this year once again to pit the Carracci against the critics, for the past two months has been staging the biggest Carracci show ever: 115 canvases and 250 sketches chosen from museums the world over. To the surprise of the sponsors, the Carracci have turned out to be the biggest drawing card in Bolognese history; attendance figures have...
Four soccer games tomorrow pit Winthrop against Kirkland, Leverett against Dudley, Dunster against Eliot, and Adams against Lowell. Thursday Lowell opposes Eliot, and Kirkland meets Adams...
...wing. We backed off the stage and took hold of the cart containing the bridge and groom of the marriage ceremony. As we made the are across the stage, dancers whirled about us. "Hurry up," they whispered. We did not almost sent the cart careening into the orchestra pit. Putting the cart down, we leaned back in our most graceful posture of the evening. The happy couple spread their arms to the audience and the curtain fell...
...previous novels of the series, Lewis Eliot has lifted himself from the pit of shabby genteel poverty, taking a fling at law and teaching, and played the good Samaritan to a headstrong younger brother. When the present novel opens in 1938. Eliot is trudging home to a wife with a "schizoid chill." He has married her out of the weakest virtue, pity, but since he himself has never surfaced emotionally, he can bring her no love. In nagging misery, she commits suicide...