Word: played
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...either direct talks with the Arabs or none at all. She is especially adamant in her refusal to recognize any effort by the Soviet Union to arrange peace terms. This puts her at odds with the Nixon Administration, which believes that the Russians-as equippers of the Arabs -must play a part in peace as in war. Thus, when Secretary of State William Rogers met on two occasions last week with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, the Middle East was high on their agenda. Moscow now seems to realize that it is unrealistic simply to demand Israeli withdrawal from...
...usual, most of the songs are by McCartney and Lennon. Yet it is George Harrison's Something, on which he solos as singer and guitarist, that is already getting the biggest play on U.S. radio stations. Beatle-watchers believe that Something is something of a milestone for George. Lately he has spent a lot of time communing with Bob Dylan -at the Isle of Wight, where Dylan performed last month (TIME, Sept. 12), as well as at Dylan's home in Woodstock, N.Y. This has helped him achieve a new confidence in his own musical personality. His three...
Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele may be an exception. Toscanini admired it. Great bassos love to strip to the waist and storm through it. Famous prima donnas long to play at being beautiful and abandoned in it. The Metropolitan Opera has hinted at doing it for decades, but when the New York City Opera presented it last week, it was the first time that New Yorkers were able to see the opera performed with full stage trappings in 43 years...
...fell through lust into destruction; his Mephistopheles in Gounod's Faust is demon masquerading as man; to round off his demonic repertory, New York City Opera General Director Julius Rudel is toying with the idea of producing Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (in which Treigle would play yet another Mephistopheles) and Busoni's Doktor Faust (in which Treigle would switch roles and appear as Faust, leaving Mephisto to some diabolic tenor...
...together easily enough, producing a balanced and pleasing arrangement is a true test of ingenuity and self-control. Says one new planetarian: "I couldn't stop. I worked until dawn and got so irritated I nearly screamed. Vasarely's paintings always looked like child's play to me. Now I understand all the long years of work behind them...