Word: scene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he is pulling a fast one, Adolf Hitler likes to put on a show of force near the scene of operations. Berlin is 300 miles from Bratislava. Early this week the Führer announced that in midweek there would be a huge military parade in Vienna to celebrate the first anniversary of his entry after Anschluss. Vienna is exactly 34 miles from Bratislava...
...hero of Boris appears in only three of the long, episodic music drama's nine scenes,* must work hard to dominate its diffuse action. If Pinza failed to dominate, it was partly because the whole production was one of the finest the Metropolitan has mounted in years. Aside from the fact that it was sung in Italian, it would doubtless have pleased hard-drinking neurotic Modeste Moussorgsky, who, when he wrote the opera in 1873, attempted to make the People the protagonist, gave the chorus a great "Revolutionary Scene," in which he planted ideas which did not come...
...example of Melville's romancing is his account, in White-Jacket, of falling overboard on his 14-month voyage home on the frigate United States. Probably one of the most vivid escapes from death in literature, it is the scene which prompted Biographer Lewis Mumford to observe that Melville had now "faced life and death, not as abstractions, but as concrete events. . . ." But Melville never fell overboard in his life. Says Author Anderson: Melville suffered this vicarious experience in an account by a seaman who fell overboard from the frigate United States 18 years before...
...When I was at Harvard it had been the fashion to live in ugly frame houses which lined the streets off Massachusetts Avenue . . . . now that the entire academic scene had changed I did not feel at home," relates Marquand's fictional Harvard alumnus in "Wickford Point...
...play itself. Certain lines--especially in the first act--come too fast for even the most hardened crack cracker; the story, containing one case of mixed identity, virulent satirizing of Henry Luce and the "Fortune" outfit, and a complex love relation, verges on the obscure. But individual scenes, such as Miss Hepburn's "interview" of "Destiny's" reporters in the first act and the love scene between Van Heflen and Miss Hepburn in the second, show real brilliance, and give to the play an underlying significance. With his great understanding of human nature, his comedy rhythm, and his feeling...