Word: slights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Absurd as it is, the opera contains some of Mozart's most brilliant, buoyant, vocal music. But in the huge Metropolitan, the slight comedy was as close to lost as a puppet show in Madison Square Garden. One of the principals, Dezso Ernster, the Met's new basso, spoke and sang English with a Hungarian accent so thick he could not be understood. Most of the others went at Mozart's trifle like a man swinging at thistledown with a baseball bat. Somewhere along the line someone had forgotten that Mozart's little Singspiel...
...Risks. More reparations in consumer goods to Russia would have several important results, some good, some bad from a U.S. viewpoint. The Russian people, who had fought a heroic war, would get a slight and well-deserved increase in their living standard. Germany's neighbors, who could not return to normal economy until Germany revived considerably, would certainly benefit. On the other hand, more consumer goods to Russians would permit the Kremlin's bosses to allocate a greater part of the Russian industrial effort to increasing the U.S.S.R. war potential. And a large flow of German production...
General tendencies throughout the 17 year period reveal a steady decline in the esoteric Arts and Letters culminating in the middle of the war when these studies practically disappeared. There has been a slight comeback registered in this area since...
...Haven team is favored despite the Crimson's slight edge in percentages because the caliber of Eli opposition has been far stronger than the foes faced by the Varsity, and a comparison of scores against mutual rivals gives the Blue a definite margin of superiority--or so it would seem on paper...
Except for this slight flurry of aggressiveness, quiet and order was maintained as of midnight from Lehman to Memorial Hall...