Word: ra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wozzeck was a smash. "How long," mused L'Express, "has it been since L'Opéra de Paris has offered its public a work of such strength, executed with such care, love and precision down to the slightest detail? Not since the war certainly." Hiking the cost of tickets up to a high of $16 for Norma and brazenly importing big-name, high-priced foreign artists in excess of the legal quota (by government decree not more than 10% of the singers can be foreign), Auric mounted new productions of Tannhäuser, Don Carlos...
...most successful Parisian theater scandals need as much care and planning as the most successful general strikes. The opening-night audience must arrive at the Paris Opéra knowing just how furious it will soon become; how else would everyone be sure to bring rotten eggs and carrots under his coat? The Paris press seemed to be coaxing up a fine rumble shortly after the first rehearsal of Maurice Béjart's new production of Berlioz' The Damnation of Faust. HOW BÉJART WILL UNDRESS MARGUERITE, promised one headline; FAUST IS A PEEPING TOM, declared...
Social Drama. Under the sweep of Béjart's bizarre and dark imagination, the sum of such tricks was a triumph. A dusty and innocuous opera became a modern social drama-and such events are just what the Paris Opéra needs to improve on its present status as the place across the street from American Express. But Béjart was booed as well as cheered by his audience, and the papers barely let him get out of town before they began their battle: "Paroxysms of vulgarity," "A universe of fantasy and poetry." SHOULD...
...Venezuela's powerful President Rómulo Betancourt, one of the U.S.'s finest friends, steps out of power this year. He will be replaced by Raúl Leoni, who was elected last fall despite vicious terrorist tactics of Castro Communists. Venezuela is one of Latin America's most progressive democratic countries, but the U.S. is worried that Leoni may prove to be not so strong as Betancourt...
...French Ra and Rb are a set of two half-year courses open to students who have had two years of French in high school but have not passed the language requirement in French. The stated aim of the courses is to increase reading speed and comprehension. In practice, however, it is considered a terminal course and is usually taken as an easy way to fulfill the language requirement. French C, an intermediate course in French conversation and composition, has the same requirements and is usually taken byy students who plan to continue their study of French...