Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pudgy little man in smoothly fitted tails put down his baton, turned to the audience and inclined his balding head to the salvos of applause. That was in his native Jackson, Miss., where last week he conducted the stage premiere of his opera The Soldier plus his Malady of Love for a two-night stand. The next night, in black tie, he turned up in the pit of Manhattan's Lunt-Fontanne Theater, where he presided over a performance of Leroy Anderson's brassy musical Goldilocks. Four days later, in a sweatshirt, he was hovering over the orchestra...
...opera scores, as last week's Jackson performances demonstrated, are tautly constructed, neatly professional jobs, full of garish dramatic effects. The Soldier, based on a story by Roald Dahl, is a moody study of a World War II veteran who returns home psychologically scarred, suspects his wife of trying to drive him insane, and eventually winds up in a mental institution. To this curdled tale Composer Engel fitted a score shot through with warm lyrical flights that died suddenly in derisively dissonant evocations of the chaos in the soldier's mind. Engel's fellow Jacksonians responded enthusiastically...
World War II. When the Germans invaded Norway in 1940, friends got Willy, by now a Norwegian citizen, into a Norwegian soldier's uniform, and although he spent five weeks in a P.W. camp, the Nazis never spotted the disguise. Released, he slipped across to Sweden, there wrote anti-Nazi propaganda until...
...Kirkland House cross-country team proved that it did not need an Act of God to win the House meet. In a re-run of November fifth's fiasco, in which a deceptively closed Soldier's Field Gate handicapped one-quarter of the runners, Kirkland again finished first...
...Rome, which he said was "no retraction" but was intended to soothe. "In my view, the Italian army is, today, as good as any army in NATO . . . Any remarks I made in my memoirs were not intended to reflect in any way on the courage of the Italian soldier. During the late war his morale was low because his heart was not in the Fascist cause; also, he was not too well equipped." At week's end, Italians glowed in the reassurance from their newspapers that they had fought bravely, on both sides...