Word: tote
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vienna-bred Korngold landed in Hollywood in 1934, he had behind him an astounding career as a musical Wunderkind in Europe. When he was a teenager, his works were performed by Pianist Artur Schnabel and Conductor Bruno Walter. In 1921, when Korngold was 24, his third opera, Die Tote Stadt (The Dead City), was staged at New York's Metropolitan Opera. In the leading role of Marietta was Soprano Maria Jeritza, making her Met debut. The American public took to Jeritza but not to Korngold, and after a few years it forgot him as a serious composer...
Last week Die Tote Stadt was finally revived by the New York City Opera, with Jeritza, now a remarkably robust and handsome 87, sitting in the fourth row center. Even in the 1920s, Die Tote Stadt was an anachronism. Korngold was to Richard Strauss what Engelbert Humperdinck (Hansel und Gretel) was to Wagner-a brilliant but minor follower. The style of Die Tote Stadt is a lush, clamorous, occasionally schmaltzy orchestral sonorama that lies somewhere between Der Rosenkavalier and Elektra, with special added effects from Puccini, Debussy, Mahler and Rimsky-Korsakov. The best of its vocal moments, like the taunting...
...philosophical grounds what kind of Bible they are going to allow their God to use. Instead of basking in their sense of being grasped, they nervously watch the odds on the Bible being true or the percentage of it that is true, as these odds constantly change on a tote board that is dependent on archaeologists and historians...
...holds out the hope that social changes can reduce both the use of handguns and the need for them. Many gun owners, on the other hand, say that since crime is inevitable, the only way to make society safe is to lock the criminals away and, of course, to tote a handgun--the great "equalizer"--for self-defense...
...million fans last season, outdrawing the Dolphins or Hialeah. Many of the breed improvers now come and go without ever seeing a live dog. Instead, they sit in sybaritic comfort in "The Great Racing Theater," a new, cavernous 5,000-seat trackside auditorium where bettors can watch the tote board and the race on a 40-ft. closed-circuit TV screen. It is more convenient to put down late bets that way. Between races they study Vince De Marco's 75? greyhound tip sheet. When the mechanical rabbit takes off on its mad whirl around the track, the fans...