Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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George Gershwin maintained that Porgy and Bess was a real opera, not a glorified Broadway musical, but until recently, few believed him. Early productions generally truncated his ample (more than three hours) score, cut down its lush orchestration and substituted spoken dialogue for the recitatives. But there has been growing interest in an authentic Porgy, beginning with the Houston Grand Opera's 1976 production and followed by an even more opulent version seen at New York's Radio City Music Hall two years ago. Last week, 50 years after its premiere, Porgy came all the way uptown to the Metropolitan...
Weinberger begins his defense of the Department of Defense this week in testimony before the Senate and House Armed Services committees. Mild- mannered and equably spoken but adamant as always, he gave TIME a preview of his argument. The U.S., he said in an interview, faces a Soviet Union "with a growing military strength, almost all of it offensive in nature. And while you're not precisely sure where they will test you, you have to have an ability to project (military power) rapidly to various parts of the world. This includes the requirement that you may have...
...Arts and learning from Performers sponsored Walker's poetry reading. Although the space was very crowded, with people sitting on the floor and dangling from the upper balcony, no one was turned away. Afterwards, Walker patiently signed copies of The Color Purple and her other books. Walker was soft-spoken about her success, and she admitted that she enjoyed gardening more than the rewards of fame. "When you win a prize" she said referring to The Color Purple's Pulitzer, "there are a lot of the cans attached to it. You can become really rattled." It was over a year...
...Ever since Puebla, during his globetrotting papacy, the Pope has consistently spoken out on behalf of the poor and against social injustice, more often and more vigorously than any of his predecessors. He has relentlessly continued to stress both the evils of Marxism and the need for priests to avoid direct involvement in politics. In effect, his aim has been to co-opt the acceptable themes of liberation theology, while trimming away its objectionable elements. As one high official of the Roman Curia puts it, John Paul's strategy is "to show that he is the premier liberation theologian...
...women priests. The Rev. Andrew Greeley, whose writing ranges from pop novels (The Cardinal Sins) to detailed sociological surveys (The American Catholic), believes the figures indicate that hundreds of thousands of young women are not attending church regularly because of discrimination against females. "For a church that has spoken repeatedly in recent years about the need to 'evangelize,' " Greeley writes, "this very large number of alienated young women represents a significant evangelistic challenge...