Word: tooling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Cleveland's Musicarnival decided to do Tosca, it called on the Metropolitan Opera's Assistant Manager John Gutman to tool it up for modern tastes. Gutman, an old hand at translating and adapting opera librettos, decided to switch the locale from the Rome of 1800 to an unspecified modern Eastern European capital. Scarpia, chief of the Roman police, became a Communist cop, and his enemies, the Bonapartists, became simply freedom fighters or "subversives." All told, Gutman had to doctor only 25 lines. The underling of Act II who formerly rushed in to announce that Bonaparte...
...befits a man whose minions are estimated to have killed between 10 million and 15 million people since 1949, Mao began his revision of Marxist dogma by admitting that murder is a vital tool in the construction of a Communist society. "The total number of those liquidated by our own security forces," he said in a burst of frankness, "is 800,000." But now, he insisted, "we are no longer using methods of terror." Where the Russians went wrong, he implied, was in not recognizing that even after a Communist government has crushed all organized opposition, it may face "internal...
Citation: "He works courageously to forge and use a practical tool for settling the problems of peoples and nations...
Hammarskjold, U.N. head since 1953 and previously a Swedish diplomat, was cited: "He works courageously to forge and use a practical tool for settling the problems of peoples and nations...
Moreover, the Christian tool is no so suitable for contemporary patients as it was for the ancients. We are not an exact duplicate of the Alexandrian Academy. Our modern dilemma is not purely Hellenic, for we have already incorporated Christian elements such as the concept of time as going somewhere. This notion of progress, of the future justifying the present, of a paradise for which today's effort must be directed, this division of ends and means which has created totalitarian ideology, is of Biblical origin. A Moscow Purge has more in common with a Catholic Inquisition to save souls...