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What is your name? Magda Sorel...
Menotti stretched his libretto and music around a situation of almost completely unrelieved pathos and tragedy. His heroine, Magda Sorel (Soprano Patricia Neway), applies for a visa to join her resistance-leader husband, who has been hounded out of his unnamed country by the secret police. "The Consul" himself never appears; his secretary chants a bored refrain to all comers...
There is a descendant of Charlemagne, Lucrezia Borgia, Mary Queen of Scots, William the Silent, Vladimir of Russia, Geoffrey Chaucer, Pierre de Ronsard, Diane de Poitiers, Agnes Sorel and 1,048,567 other traceable ancestors, who frequently breaks 70 on the golf links. Three years ago he donated a silver cup-La Coupe du Roi des Beiges, for a tournament at Onex, Switzerland-and last year he won the cup himself. This year he reached the quarter finals of the amateur championship in Paris. Other members of the Onex club hail Leopold III, King of the Belgians, as "a perfect...
Chambers read Georges Sorel's Reflections on Violence and was converted to an acceptance of the evil thing as a worthy means to a clear and simple end. In 1924, he joined the Communist Party in New York. For the next 14 years, as he admitted later, he lived a lie-a disloyal citizen plotting against his country...
...doctors convicted of a felony, and Montel was convicted of treason, in absentia, by French courts. But he was recommended for a license by Msgr. Ferdinand Vandry, Rector of Laval University, where he teaches surgery. And it was Msgr. Vandry who recommended him to the nuns who operate Sorel's Hôtel-Dieu...