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...with the orchestra, you're off. So you go in the other direction." But Britten's insistent, subtle use of rhythmic and dissonant backgrounds put a wallop into Librettist Ronald Duncan's seething play. The opera opens with a rousing drinking and singing bout in the tent of Roman Generals Junius and Collatinus, with Tarquinius, the Etruscan prince who "treats the proud city [Rome] as if it were his whore." It closes with an anticlimactic epilogue after Lucretia's dramatic suicide...
...known to patent-medicine makers: the mandrake, or Mayapple root. For centuries, men have regarded the mandrake with awe. Old Testament writers mentioned it with respect as a fertility symbol (Rachel purchased some from Leah at the price of Jacob's spending the night in Leah's tent). Medieval men, certain that there was something odd about mandrake, believed that it would shriek in Gothic agony when pulled out of the ground...
...subdued. She had chosen a reckless way of life, and she pursued it with persistent hardihood. She was constantly moved to outbursts of wild generosity. When the straggling Bonus Army of World War I veterans marched on Washington in 1932, she fed them, bought them cigarets, provided a circus tent to house them...
...went sightseeing. In the morning he took a 2½-hour jaunt in the Sacred Cow, peered down from 13,000 feet at smoking Paricutin volcano. After that, reddening in the sun, he drove 30 miles to view the archeological wonders of Teotihuacan, ate lunch in a flower-walled tent, and marveled at the ancient Temple of Quetzalcoatl...
...best (i.e., warmest) place to be in Munich on a Sunday morning is in bed. Nevertheless, 8,000 Munchener got up early, waded through ice slush and jammed into the huge, drafty tent of Germany's famed Zirkus Krone. When it finally started, the performance under the Big Top proved altogether worth the early risers' trouble. It was only thin little Socialist Dr. Kurt Schumacher making a speech. But he spoke up to the Allies in some of the boldest language yet used in public by a German in defeated Germany...