Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latest was a performance, for the first time in America, of Schilling's Mona Lisa. The opera is an ingenious attempt to explain the smile on the face of Da Vinci's famous portrait. The prologue and epilogue present a young wife with her old husband, sight-seeing in Florence. Both parts are taken by newcomers to the Metropolitan - Barbara Kemp, of the Berlin Opera, and Michael Bohnen, of the Munich Opera. The roles are dual. In the two acts of the piece they appear as Mona Lisa and her husband, in a story told by a young...
...obscure, striving to bring it to the white light of undergraduate opinion, distinguished and almost extinguished by the "Gadfly". Success, inspired by those great names which have already contributed to the greatness of the Century Dictionary,-D, E. Fels: Felt G. Hoon; and R. Simulant, seems almost in sight. The does is done. All contributions received will help to perpetrate, and perpetuate, the "Crime...
...same terms which faced the milleniumite stage director, the ultimatum of "work or starve". His first job and his hardest is the job of finding a job which he can develop and which will develop him. Until he succeeds, his purpose will be lost to sight, and the vision of a kingdom round the corner dance instead before his eyes...
College should train a man to think and write concisely. The business world of today especially demands briefness. That point seems to be lost sight of at times when examinations are being marked...
...invaders. His blind father knows the guilt but not the name of the lover, Avito, so he keeps silence. The husband Manfredo, on his return, is coldly received, but goes again to war with the pledge that Flora will wave to him until his retinue is out of sight. Beguiled by Avito, she leaves the battlements too soon; the blind father strangles her, the husband returns, and the two wooers die (as opera demands) by kissing the poisoned lips of the corpse. It is all very Absurd, very passionate, and perfectly plausible in its musical setting...