Word: pits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battle had been months in the making. Ever since the Republicans gained 47 House seats in last November's election, the minority leadership under Michigan's Gerald Ford has sought to devise positive proposals to pit against key Democratic programs. As a substitute for the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, under which Washington directly assists local school districts with the emphasis on specific programs in impoverished areas, Albert Quie (pronounced Kwee) of Minnesota developed a new approach that would give state governments a dominant role in distributing federal funds. The Quie substitute would also have changed...
...calls "clouds," in which orchestra and singers improvise rhythmically suspended, ever-shifting textures. At various points in the piece, the string players clatter their bows on their instruments, the brassmen blow air tonelessly through their mouthpieces, the woodwinds bend notes into piercing quartertones. A 24-voice chorus in the pit sometimes comments on the action or makes weird noises underlining a dramatic moment; during the orgy scene, it sighs, moans, and murmurs the word love in several languages simultaneously...
...will bring. "Now," says Pinky, "the serious business is starting." Meantime, the other business continues. Three hours after the competition, Pinky was back at Juilliard for the dress rehearsal of a student opera production of The Rape of Lucretia, in which he is just another fiddle player in the pit...
...eschatology, hell is something more believable than a pit of unending fire. To most theologians, the inferno is best expressed as alienation from God's universal design, and therefore from one's fellow men. "Hell is estrangement, isolation, despair," says Acting Dean Lloyd Kalland of Gordon Divinity School in Wenham, Mass...
...numbing slim-wittedness of Arthur Laurents' book seems to have infected the score: the songs evaporate as they leave the orchestra pit, despite such potent tunesmiths as Composer Jule Styne or Lyricists Adolph Green and Betty Comden. Some of the dances catch fire, notably a G.I. close-order drill done with smoking speed to syncopated shouts, and in a show that is more candied than candid, Leslie Uggams and Robert Hooks perform with unblemished, infectiously likable honesty. Apart from being lovely to look at, Uggams has a shy sly smile that burgles the theater house. She can cradle...