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AARON COPLAND: THE TENDER LAND (Columbia). An abridgment of Copland's only major opera, set on a Midwest farm in the '30s. Though the characters sing of gingham and the smell of stew, the music is not homespun, being tenderly lyrical. A small-scale work suitable for opera workshops, it was recorded by soloists from the New York City Opera, with the Choral Art Society and the New York Philharmonic, Copland conducting...
...Swift's; and in Black Mischief (1932), a hilarious and still timely tale of emerging Africa and declining England, his feelings find blackly humorous expression: the British hero, inquiring after his British sweetheart in an African town, is cheerfully informed that she was the principal ingredient in the stew he has just eaten...
...Ankrah got on the horn and was told by the operator: "I'm sorry, the lion is busy." "Rhino what you're up to," he roared, with the phone still Ringling in his ears, "but I don't know vulture doing it for." In a frightful stew, Ankrah headed for the waterfront zoo (known as Hyenasport) for an on-the-spots investigation...
...oldtime vaudevillian who had played in more than 100 movies and Broadway shows before finding instant fame in the '50s as irascible Landlord Fred Mertz in TV's I Love Lucy, where he stayed for all 214 episodes, though he soon found the show "like eating stew every night-stale and not a bit funny"; of a heart attack; in Hollywood...
...Princeton, Stew Marr (seven) and John Duer (nine) blitzed Harvard's Peter Brooks and Gordon Black by 3-0 scores...