Word: tre
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...action of verismo, using the more advanced harmonic language and orchestral technique of Wagner to create a new direction for opera. In La Fanciulla del West (1910), Puccini had pointed the way, and several younger men were eager to inherit his mantle: Italo Montemezzi, with L'Amore del Tre Re (1913); Ildebrando Pizzetti, with Fedra (1915); and Zandonai. But the attempt failed; although all three continued to compose into the midcentury, it was left to Puccini to write fine to traditional Italian opera with Turandot, which premiered posthumously...
Built over a period of eight centuries, the Louvre is an imposing palace but, notwithstanding its fabulous art collection, an impossible museum. The French call it un théâtre sans coulisses, a theater without a backstage. Some 90% of its space is crammed with exhibits of paintings and sculptures, leaving only 10% for such essentials as storage and offices, to say nothing of research and restoration facilities. For years expansion has been blocked by the fact that one entire wing of the U-shape building has been occupied by the Ministry of Finance, which Mitterrand is now moving...
DIED. Fania Fénelon, 75, singer in the all-female inmate orchestra at the Auschwitz death camp, who recounted her ordeal in the memoir Playing for Time; of a heart attack; in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France. Fénelon's 1976 book was made into a television movie four years later, with Vanessa Redgrave portraying Fénelon despite objections because of pro-Palestine Liberation Organization statements...
Just before 3 a.m., both outlets sounded the first ugly bulletin about the attack on the Marines in Beirut. Such late-breaking major news is the raison d'être of McConnell's job: she immediately telephoned World Senior Editor Henry Muller and Deputy Chief of Correspondents B. William Mader. Muller, in turn, called Managing Editor Ray Cave. Clearly, the Beirut bombing had to be in the magazine this week...
...instead to the future: "Maybe we have to renew our national system to take into account our pluralism. Instead of dividing, it can unite. I am ambitious about this goal. I think that I will be able to find the right formula. This is the raison d'être of Lebanon, isn't it? To create this important laboratory for the region. How can you bring Muslims and Jews together in the Middle East if the Lebanese formula for coexistence fails? In Switzerland there are many ethnic groups that could not survive unless they survived together...