Word: rebirth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...easiest assignment in operatic composing, but by concentrating on the love story of Prince Andrei and Natasha, and Kuturov's defeat of Napoleon, Prokofiev has done a surprisingly effective job. Instead of beginning with a big party scene, he shrewdly chooses a tender picture of longing and rebirth when Andrei hears Natasha and Sonya on their balcony. The composer has written the girls a soprano duet that recalls Strauss's lyricism. Here and elsewhere, the voices of Radmilla Vasovic Bokacevic and Biserka Cvejic are nicely matched. Among the male singers, Dusan Popovic as Andrei stands out as having...
...countries may be established through a combination of immigration and revolution, as in the U.S. and Latin America, where settlers cut loose from their colonial masters. The process may also occur through a kind of rebirth-a deliberate revival of an ancient state or civilization in a new form, often but not always accompanied by revolutionary war. Modern Greece fought for its independence from the Ottoman empire partly in the name of its ancient, glorious incarnation, and modern Germany struggled for national unity remembering its identity under the Holy Roman Empire...
...creation of modern Israel, traces of most of these precedents can be found-conquest, war of liberation, immigration, rebirth, international action-although no really close parallel exists. Judaism is a unique mixture of race, nationality and religion. There is no other people that has been dispersed for so long from its original home, yet has maintained the memory of that home as a living reality...
...passes directly through blighted and deteriorated areas in need of urban renewal and redevelopment." There were other reasons too. By locating a route just East of Central Square (in reality, through the heart of the business district), the highway would bring business to the area and make "possible the rebirth of Central Square in terms of retail and office building development...
...rebirth had taken place on an operating table in San Francisco's Presbyterian Medical Center just a year before. Diagnostic tests which were made by threading plastic tubes through arm veins and into Betty's heart had revealed most of nature's errors. Even so, Surgeon Frank Gerbode was in for a surprise. When he opened her chest to make connections for routing her circulation through a heart-lung machine, instead of finding two great veins returning used blood to the heart, he discovered an extra vena cava...