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...another government, with pictures of Warsaw's Russian-built "Palace of Culture." The new attitude towards the party was summed up by an ancient pitchfork-brandishing farmer: "I'm my own boss now and when some party man comes out to tell me to go out to rake hay for the nation, I have a big needle for his back...
...topics," said Publishers' Weekly in announcing the new book to the trade. The book: a new edition of Ovid's The Art of Love, including The Remedies of Love, The Art of Beauty, etc. The great Roman poet's famed work, combining amatory advice with a rake's recollections, scandalized Emperor Augustus when it first appeared about 1 B.C. Never had the Loves read as well in English as in the new translation by Rolfe Humphries, longtime Latin teacher and poet, who combines current lingo and idiom with a keen sense for the classic, a roguish...
Under a governmental austerity ruling that cut back their budget 30%, officials of Venice's famed International Festival of Contemporary Music had canceled the prestigious operatic premiéres of earlier years (e.g., Stravinsky's own 1951 Rake's Progress, Britten's 1954 Turn of the Screw, Prokofiev's 1955 Flaming Angel), pinned all their hopes and a large part of their remaining budget on the world premiére of Stravinsky's Canticum Sacrum ad Honorem Sancti Marci Nominis (Canticle to Honor the Name of St. Mark...
...harlots. Up to the time John Gay wrote it in 1728, London opera had been the Italianate tableaux of Handel, complicated tales of gods and goddesses, ancient heros, and noble peasants. Gay took contemporary London as his scene, its squalid poor for his supporting players, and a well-born rake turned highwayman as his hero. Whereas Handel had been intrigued by the idea that savages could be as noble as lords and ladies, Gay argued that nobles could be as savage as the lowliest pimp; his characters, though they try desperate hard, are despondent over their failure to exceed...
...tontine, begun in England just after the Battle of Waterloo, people in each of eight age groups enter the setup at 100 guineas a head. The money and interest are invested for 20 years; the interest is split annually among the survivors. As others die, those left behind gleefully rake in more dough until one person takes...