Word: rare
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...rapidly, as was done in Shakespeare's day, so that the running-time was only three hours and a half. He acted, as Shaw advocated, on the lines, rather than between the lines, as the most famous American Hamlet, John Barrymore, was wont to do. (Uncut productions are exceedingly rare. In Britain, Frank Benson did it first, in 1899. Gielgud and Guinness acted the full text in the decade before World War II. New York first saw an uncut Hamlet in 1938, with the much overrated Maurice Evans. And 25 years ago Harvard senior Colgate Salsbury gave us every word...
Their visit symbolized a rare diplomatic opportunity that the U.S. has not so much acquired as fallen into. Israel's invasion of Lebanon has shattered old power equations and political lineups in the Middle East in such a way as to leave all parties in the area looking to Washington for help in averting a new explosion. Both moderate and radical Arabs hope that the U.S. can restrain Israel from a final assault on West Beirut; Israel is waiting impatiently for the U.S. to negotiate a pull-out of Palestine Liberation Organization guerrilla fighters from the besieged city...
...different but no less intriguing deal that will bring three Soviet horses to the U.S. The object: to improve the breed on both sides of the Atlantic. The animals, a stallion and a mare born in the Bronx Zoo and a mare from San Diego's zoo, are rare Przewalski's horses. Discovered in Mongolia a century ago by the Polish-born Russian army colonel for whom they are named, Equus przewalskii is the only truly wild, totally undomesticated horse still left on earth. The stocky beasts have big heads, thick, short manes, chocolate-brown legs...
There is some adventure to be found. Summer is often the season for the offbeat in opera. The enterprising Santa Fe Opera will present the world premiere of American Composer George Rochberg's The Confidence Man this week, and is staging Strauss's rare Die Liebe der Danae as well; the Opera Theater of St. Louis in June presented the premiere of Stephen Paulus' ambitious The Postman Always Rings Twice, which it commissioned, and unearthed Prokofiev's youthful one-act shocker Maddalena...
...rare, for instance, for even good teachers to point out that the real concerns of library research are not bibliography or references, which are simply courtesies of audience and scholarship, but the problems of choosing and evaluating the sources at hand. Few students ever receive serious guidance in this, however. "Go to the library..."is often as far as it gets--with the result that even the best pupils commonly copy banalities and foolishness. "'Araby' is an often overlooked story by James Joyce3"--all properly footnoted, but with the issue of their accuracy or relevance never even conceived...