Word: super
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...give them the bow of Heracles. Without it, says the seer Helenus, the Greeks will never capture Troy. After many a stratagem and one deus ex machina, all three embark for Troy with the bow. Sophocles artfully balances these three characters so that at one pole Odysseus represents super-subtlety, and at the other Neoptolemus embodies noble naivete. In the middle is Philoctetes...
...University will lease the Reservoir land, between Sacra- and Garfields Streets, to the bridge YMCA for use as a super- playground, it was learned replay...
...regain a fatter share of the market. Says Rootes Motors, Inc.'s Managing Director John T. Panks: "It's nothing but bloody nonsense that the imported car is about to vanish from the U.S. market." To prove his case, Rootes sent to the show a new Humber Super-Snipe sedan designed especially...
Some of those who adore the early, sentiment-laden Puccini operas, have decided that Turandot is an "insincere" work. The super-heros are accused of inhuman conduct--which was precisely what Puccini had intended. (In one of his many letters to Giuseppe Adami, the librettist, Puccini had called Calaf and Turandot "almost super-human beings.") However, their inhuman conduct was to become humanized through Liu's example. Calaf's cruel desertion of Liu and Timur and Turandot's vicious behavior towards her subjects and suitors alike was not condoned by Puccini. During the final duet (the part he never completed...
Though Puccini intended the super-heroes to become more human, he wrote some magnificent super-music for the first two acts which depict them in their over-sized stature...