Word: role
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly flawless bit of trivia when he sat down to put silly music to a silly libretto about a fateful faro game and an old countess who is scared to death. That's right, scared to death by a mad gambler named Herman. In this recording, the role of the Countess is fairly well sung by Mezzo-Soprano Valentina Levko, and Herman is less well sung by Tenor Zurab Andzhaparidzye. The other principals validate Russia's pride in its bassos and baritones, and embarrassment for its screechy sopranos. Boris Khaikin conducts the Bolshoi's orchestra with conviction...
...BLAST OF WAR 1939-1945, by Harold Macmillan. In the second volume of his memoirs, the former Prime Minister again shows himself a man of generous mind and literary ability as he tells of his role in England's wartime government...
...maintain their vital role in the evolvement and improvement of life in the U.S. and abroad, foundations must be constantly alert to the complexities of the world and of their own responsibilities to all society. Their very charters, as the New World Foundation's Vernon Eagle has observed, mandate them as "agents for social change." Policies cannot become ruts; the habit of geese flocking, or doing what the other foundation does and supporting popular institutions and causes, must be sturdily resisted. "Foundations should stay out in the forefront of humanity," says Rockefeller President J. George Harrar. "Our major contribution...
...rampaging heyday of the Red Guards, their chief cheerleader, den mother and Joan of Arc was Chiang Ching, the fourth Mrs. Mao Tse-tung. A onetime movie actress from Shanghai, she clearly enjoyed her sudden role in the limelight after years of obscurity at Mao's side. The part, however, proved all too brief. Now that Mao has called off the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and sent the Red Guards back to school, Mrs. Mao has vanished from Peking's rostrums and podiums. "Hens must not cackle too much," Mao reportedly crowed to his male colleagues...
Strike for Sanity. Playing the role of a quiet subversive among the hortatory voices of the Times editorial page, Baker mocks "overstates," the "crisis-glut" and determined problem solvers. "A solved problem creates two new problems," he writes, "and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to." A sober Washington reporter himself until a sense of futility overcame him, Virginia-born Baker became the Times's first humor columnist six years ago. He uses humor, he says, "to strike a blow for sanity...