Word: pitting
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...Leonie Rysanek of New York's Metropolitan Opera. The week's musical highlight was undoubtedly Mozart's Don Giovanni, which was performed on the gala May night in 1869 when the Emperor Franz Josef presided over the opening of the huge sandstone operatic palace. In the pit last week was Conductor Josef Krips, who revived Don in 1945 in the grim days immediately after the war, when the company took temporary refuge in the Theater an der Wien...
...stars obviously relish working together, and in fleeting scenes exhibit their celebrated force and subtlety, but Winning stifles any attempt at authentic emotion or excitement. The Newmans are harddriving, lifelong competitors; both now seem ready for a pit stop...
...other varsity heat, Penn and Yale are the strongest boats. Since the top three finishers in each that qualify for the finals, the race for the championship will probably pit the Crimson against these four boats and one also-ran, maybe Princeton...
...distinguished the New Left from the New Politics. The New Left prefers to work outside party politics. It prefers direct action for the sake of a moral principle--strikes, demonstrations, building takeovers. Any kind of long run participation in decision-making bores the radicals. It is more Nietzschean to pit one's will against the system and make it yield. Confrontation politics is not really politics...
...Dante were alive today, he might well add another circle in the lower depths of his Inferno. Inhabiting this new pit of horror would be the warring Negro leaders of Harlem and the meddling white man who tries to understand them. It is just such a journey into hell that D. Keith Mano, a white author, describes with Dantesque fervor in his second novel, Horn...