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...opera in the style of Mozart: "Susanna, I have something terrible to tell you/I've just been talking to the butcher/And he tells me/That the price of chicken has gone up three cents a pound!" For Italian-opera lovers he repeats the sequence in Verdian style ("Gilda! II prezzo di polio"), and for unabashed German romantics a snatch of Wagner ("Ach, was ward mir heut' angetan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bestseller Revisited, Jan. 18, 1960 | 1/18/1960 | See Source »

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