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After only four months, the Russo-Japanese war was turning into a Russian disaster. Banzai-shouting Japanese troops were pushing the Russians back in Manchuria; Port Arthur was cut off; and the proud Russian ships in the harbor were immobilized by the prowling warships of Japan's Admiral Togo...
As for the music, a clue comes when a minor character (representing Menotti's caricature of modern-minded critics) deplores the romantic 19th century and asks: "Must music be only sweet?" In this work, as never before, Menotti proves himself essentially a 19th century composer. At its worst, the...
Rear Admiral Morison gives the Leyte campaign an orchestral sweep and grandeur. The individual sections tune up with snatches of preliminary air strikes and landings. There is the expectant, esthetic hush as the carrier task forces rendezvous west of the Marianas. Finally, the downbeat of H-hour sends the landing...
The rocket will be aimed at a spot in space about 137,000 miles ahead of the moon's position at the time of launching. The hope is that the moon and the satellite would rendezvous somewhere near each other 2 1/2 days later.
Maidens & Dhows. Gwadar was then the haunt of pirates and pearl divers. Later, in the iQth century, its freebooters prospered by procuring black-eyed Persian maidens for sale in Arabia's slave markets. The British, lords of India and protectors of Muscat, ended this racket. Since World War II...