Word: pit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edinburgh oldtimers, Glyndebourne's production of Ariadne, a complex opera-within-a-play, was the four-year-old festival's most ambitious single project yet. Some of the credit went to chin-tufted Sir Thomas Beecham in the pit. But most of it was due to a big, swarthy, white-maned man named Carl Ebert, who has directed the famed Glyndebourne, and all of its festival productions, since Glyndebourne's start...
...Well, then," the colonel says, as though dragging himself toward some pit, "then fire over their heads...
...week. In New Bedford, Mass., a telephone operator who caught the fever drew out her savings to buy a sewing machine which she did not know how to operate and a spinet piano which she could not play, as well as a portable radio and an outdoor barbecue pit...
...within a few days she is dead. He takes refuge in psychosomatic illness, until a gentle, understanding nurse helps him to manhood and to a courageous acceptance of the human lot. One false step with this story would have taken Author Moravia deep into the treacle pit, but he handles it with unerring skill...
...working themselves out. When Claudette tracks down her supposed husband, a gun goes off behind a closed door, and she is found alone with his corpse. Tried for murder, she is committed to a mental institution in a sequence that looks something like a screen test for The Snake Pit...