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...hampered by scant rehearsal time and by the fact that the Lyric Opera's orchestra is a competent but far from first-rate pickup group. But he kindled a performance of ravishing warmth and coloration, better by far than anything previously heard from the Lyric Opera's pit. With Soprano Birgit Nilsson as Isolde, Tenor Karl Liebl as Tristan, and Mezzo Grace Hoffman as Brangaene, Rodzinski shaped a youthfully vibrant production, as remarkable for its knotted dramatic tensions as it was for its moments of shadowed repose...
Other touch football games Friday will pit Houses against their traditional Eli rivals. Dunster, if they lose the championship will face Berkeley; if Winthrop is defeated is is slated to face Davenport...
Massachusetts elections have never had the notoriety of those in Long's Louisiana, or the predictability of Vermont's. Traditionally, the Republicans pit a Puritan Beacon Hiller against a Democrat recently arisen from Boston's South End. This year the situation has changed: for one of the two major state posts, the Democrats have nominated a fair-haired boy from the upper classes, and the Republicans have chosen two relatively unknown political hacks in their nearly hopeless campaign effort. All four candidates are united in one respect: they are mediocre...
...company, which had been in Springhill for a very long time as Canadian mines go, had at least some faith in Springhill's productive capacity and kept its mine going. Last week in No.2, about 167 men on the night shift felt the pit floor heave upward and they knew Springhill was in the publicity game once again...
...surefire system is to take some typical or moving theme -nuclear fallout in On the Beach, race prejudice in The Chequer Board, homeless children in Pied Piper. He weaves in plenty of stirring incidents and peoples his pages with strongly sympathetic, highly moral characters who land deep in a pit of trouble in the first chapter, are often still there by the last...