Word: seraglio
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...Seraglio. The Victorian era, according to Pearl, was "an age when prostitution was widespread and flagrant; when many London streets were like Oriental bazaars of flesh; when the luxurious West End nighthouses dispensed love and liquor till dawn; when fashionable whores . . . rode with duchesses in Rotten Row, and eminent Victorians negotiated for the tenancy of their beds; when a pretty new suburb arose at St. John's Wood as a seraglio for mistresses and harlots." In the rising tide of Victorian morality, one female Londoner in every 16 became a whore; there were 6,000 brothels and about...
...began the sixth year of its outstanding TV Opera series with a capable colorcast of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio; it did even better with the returning cultural show, March of Medicine. Produced by Smith, Kline and French Laboratories in cooperation with the American Medical Association, March of Medicine opened with an unprecedented trip by TV cameras to New York's Hudson River State Hospital, for a study of the care and treatment of the mentally ill. Viewers are likely to remember for a long time the shots of patients on the lawns and benches...
...Opera Series (Sun. 3 p.m., NBC). Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio (in color...
...Sultan's enemies. Thanks to Aimée, her son, Mahmoud II ("The Reformer"), broke the power of the Janissaries and (says a Turkish poet) "opened the gate of the Orient to a new light." "We see [through Aimée]," concludes Author Blanch, "that even in the seraglio, as a slave, she had considerably more freedom to be essentially a woman than many women now enmeshed in the complex mechanism of our economic civilization...
...fragment relating to a musical memory that is all but a miracle. Bending down to his orchestral leader just before an opera performance was about to begin, Beecham whispered. "We are playing Figaro tonight, are we not?" "Oh,no, Sir Thomas." said the leader in alarm, "it is Seraglio!" "My dear fellow, you amaze me!" said Beecham. With that, he closed the Figaro score on his desk and proceeded to conduct the whole of Seraglio from memory...