Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earth hung in a cobalt sky like a giant circus balloon. The landscape was dotted with papier-mache roses and lilies and peopled by curly-horned horses, characters in tasseled, clownlike costumes, and a peruked barrister in trailing robes. Thus the surface of the moon appeared to the space dreamers of Franz Joseph Haydn's day, and last week the vision glowed warmly on the stage of The Hague's Royal Theater as part of the Holland Festival. Occasion: the first complete performance since Haydn's time of his opera The World of the Moon (its original...
...told, will transport him to the wonderful moon world. Convinced, when he comes to, that he really is on the moon, he encounters various phony lunar marvels (including a tongue-twisting lunar language with phrases like "Luna lena lino lana lino lunala"). In the end, love conquers time and space, but what counts is expressed in one of the opera's jubilant lines: "It's a wonderful life on the moon...
Last week's audience applauded Haydn's stargazing to the rafters, and the critics beamed. Nobody seemed to mind that Haydn's outer space was shaped remarkably like an 18th century Viennese drawing room...
...hand man, Stratton engineered an important reform: raising the departments of humanities and social sciences to equal rank with the institute's other professional schools. Today M.I.T.'s curriculum spans the whole range of man's "technology," from politics to psychology, from international relations to interstellar space. "M.I.T. must adapt itself to the needs of a changing epoch," Stratton said last week in his inaugural address. "It must assume new roles and accept new responsibilities." But not at the expense of education, he vowed, and laid out three guidelines for his administration: ¶"We must strive...
Surrounded by a moat, the project will offer plenty of free parking space, and will also, being located near the Charles River, be accessible by boat from down-town Boston...