Word: signpost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...libretto went to his close friend Paul Horgan, poet, novelist, artist, author of the Harper prize novel, The Fault of Angels, other fiction about the Southwest. The resulting A Tree on the Plains is a musically modest opera, occasionally rising to heights of beauty, mainly important as a signpost that opera is turning from an exotic plant into a wayside flower, part of the American scene...
Into pigeonholes, filing cases, desk drawers in Washington, last week, went a slim, 18-page pamphlet labeled: "After Defense-What?" It will not be forgotten. Social planners, economists, Congressmen will take it out again, read and re-examine it as a signpost to a new world...