Word: rapes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week The Rape of Lucretia, the second opera from Composer Britten's one-a-year production line,* got a professional U.S. premiere from Chicago's vigorous young Opera Theater. Chicago, in turn, got what was, by the current depressed standards of opera-writing, a bang-up opera. Like the British, who first applauded The Rape a year ago, the audience in Chicago's Shubert Theatre found that homely, curly-haired Composer Britten, at 33, was not yet a new Richard Strauss come to judgment. But critics liked his forcefully discordant, often tender music, well married...
...Chicago Symphony's new conductor, Artur Rodzinski, who longs to conduct opera as he once did in Europe, saw The Rape in rehearsal and went away excited. Said he: "The whole thing is very thrilling, full of new ideas. Britten has a very original language, which you can't compare to anything. Menotti you could say sounds like Puccini, but Britten is just Britten...
...Responsible authorities [in Manchuria] say that Soviet pilots and artillerymen have been in action with Chinese Communist troops . . . Russian soldiers of occupation have been guilty of terror and rape-more than can be told. The Manchuria lao pai hsing [common people] told me: 'Everything lao pai hsing won't do, the Russian ta pi tzu [big noses] have done...
...book ever produced by man reeks with as much murder, sodomy, incest, rape and filth as does the so-called word of God. ... No book has held back the march of science as much as has the Bible...
...rice gruel, five tablespoons of cooked rice, a few greens, tea, a little sugar. Soldier prisoners bargained with their guards for skinned cats and rats; "all of us were eating weeds and grass, and plenty of us would have liked to eat each other." For complaining of attempted rape, Mrs. Keith was beaten so badly that two ribs broke. Yet she was the favorite of Camp Commander Colonel Suga, who had read and liked her Borneo book. When the first Allied planes came over Kuching, most of the prisoners were too weak to feel joy. Mrs. Keith, always thin...