Word: preys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more carefully than he is often given credit for, is on record with a remarkable statement of Britain's domestic challenges. "For the trade unions," he has said, "the choice is whether to remain sunk in the stick-in-the-mud attitudes of the twenties and thirties, a prey to Depression fixations, meeting today's prosperity with yesterday's attitudes of mind, or whether to operate an up-to-date organization in modern conditions of affluence, where the object would be to produce as much wealth as possible and get a fair and increasing reward...
...promising of the snail hunters is one of the world's messiest killers, a blind, translucent larva that is the aquatic young of a sciomyzid marsh fly. No species is more than three-quarters of an inch long, but they tear into the snails that are their natural prey with fierce abandon, ripping their flesh to ribbons with sharp mouth hooks...
...last few years the Metropolitan Opera has offered us such topnotch artists as Birgit Nilsson, Leonie Rysanek, Gladys Kuchta, Inge Bjoner, Regine Crespin and Anita Valkki, sopranos; Jon Vickers, Sandor Konya and Jess Thomas, tenors; Jean Madeira, Nell Rankin and Irene Dalis, mezzos; George London, Hermann Prey, Walter Cassel and Eberhardt Wachter, baritones; and Jerome Hines, Giorgio Tozzi and William Wilderman, bassos...
...Marvin Philip Kahl Jr. was puzzled. As the big bird slogged awkwardly through the murky, weed-choked water, its long, curved beak dangling half open, it was hardly the picture of a successful predator. Yet it was snagging a fish every couple of seconds. How was it spotting its prey...
Singer of Assurance. While the first half of the opera focuses on Lulu as predator, the second half marks her for prey. Symbolically, she is destroyed by the moral cant of the bourgeois mind, which condemns in others the vices it refuses to acknowledge in itself. Lulu's actual death is horrifying; she is disemboweled by Jack the Ripper in a London garret. At this event, Berg's music erupts in an agonizing holocaust of atonal sound, the musical equivalent of the howl of the blinded Oedipus...