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...company not only has prepared two new productions, Il Trovatore and The Marriage of Figaro where sets, costumes and staging are all unfamiliar but also is presenting a revival of Manon, Massenet's work, which was last produced during the 1953-54 season. A new production requires at least three stage rehearsals with orchestra, sets, costumes and light. A revival of a difficult work like Manon is usually given three stage rehearsals with orchestra, two of these in full dress. However, this week, four operas return to the repertory from last year and these each require at least one dress...
Nabokov's ultimate and realistic irony is to make the executioner, who is at first passed off as just another fellow prisoner, into a garrulous, sentimental clown. As the axman prattles on about being not some "unfamiliar terrible somebody, but a tender friend," Author Nabokov develops the memorable conceit that the rite of execution is both a public festival and a black sacrament, in which victim and executioner are as intimately linked as bride and groom...
Once arrived at Henley-on-Thames, both crews found their food and quarters excellent and settled down to a final week's training over the unfamiliar Henley course. The first day on the water, both eights seemed a bit sluggish, but after several days of double practice they settled into their earlier form...
...almost-graduated Seniors may have found it strange and unfamiliar to hear a discussion of this sort at Harvard. The last time they had been addressed together, as newly arrived Freshmen, talk had centered around the practical problems of college life, such as the nature of the curriculum and the optimum participation in extra-curricular activities. Four years before they had heard very little talk of ethics or character, and since that time perhaps even less...
Moral philosophy is not widely discussed at Harvard, either in classes or out. But unfamiliar as President Pusey's subject was, the answer he supplied to his own question was even more surprising. Speaking of who it is that teaches the course in moral philosophy today, he said "Together perhaps--you, your teachers, all of us, with those who have been here before us--together perhaps we do. From the beginning this course set for itself aims which cannot be taught. But they can be learned, and it is my belief that as in an earlier day, so they continued...