Word: proph
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...Gasset admits, anything today rather than philosophers, this penetrating analysis of the world's state is not economic. No fatalist, Ortega y Gasset, searcher for the truth about Western civilization, believes that something may still be done with the truth when it is found. A yea-saver, his gloomiest proph ecy is still hopeful in a sardonic Spanish way: ''Before long there will be heard throughout the planet a formidable cry, rising like the howling of innumerable dogs to the stars, asking for someone or some thing to take command, to impose an occupation, a duty...
...Most contralto roles are secondary. Contralto Matzenauer was perturbed because the Metropolitan management would not revive for her Samson et Dalila and Le Prophète, two of the few operas with contralto leads...
...eight years has the Metropolitan rocked with that potent explosion which concludes the last act of Giacomo Meyerbeer's Le Prophète and brings an entire castle tumbling in ruins upon the cast...
Gioconda for Rose Raisa, Le Prophête for Charles Marshall, Werther for Mary Garden, will probably be added to Chicago operatic repertory next season. Also it is likely that Don Carlos will be mounted for Chaliapin, Gianni Schicchi for Galeffii; Pearl Fishers for Schipa, Lucrezia Borgia for Raisa, and Pilléas and Mélisande for Garden and Baklanoff...