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...Great Spirit of the Chewing Gum, gum of diverse kinds, we offer this prayer to thee. There is grandeur in chewing gum. It is our marvelous pet, an important accessory of mankind in this modern age. Chewing gum sweetens the breath, imparts a pleasant feeling, strengthens the stomach and calms anger ... It invites happiness. It attracts smiles. An enjoyable and intellectual life is made possible because of gum chewing ... O Great Spirit of the Chewing Gum, rest in peace...
Happily, a few islands rise above the morass of tedium. At the close of the Prologue near the beginning, An Actor strikingly initiates the change from major to minor; the orchestra follows. The hamming of Satan, Lucifer, and Astaroth in the Inferno and in Hell provides a pleasant relief, and the Virgin Mary has a delightful lyric song in Bethlehem in Part II ("My God, my sweet King...
Accordin1g to James M. Perrin '64, director of the PBH project, one of the main problems in these areas is that the children have no access to good literature; with an easy source of books in a pleasant condition, the children are much more likely to want to read them...
LITTLE OWL, by Reiner Zimnik, illustrated by Hanne Axmann (Atheneum; $3.50), is a translation from German of a tale about a peeping-owl. The illustrations convey with charm and mystery a mocking view of the foolish fears that isolate adults from the pleasant world of children and small animals...
...prettiest Butterfly I have ever seen: she is slim, graceful, and really looks "just fifteen." All this is infinitely preferable to Renata Tebaldi lumbering about the stage in yards of flowered silk, but vocally, Miss Tsukamoto provided only the barest outlines of any kind of Butterfly at all. Her pleasant voice was often completely inaudible in low-lying or pianissimo passages, and only occasionally did she summon anything like the power necessary for Butterfly's big moments. A soprano who can sing the second act of Butterfly should also be able to sing Tosca: they are both "Italian operas...