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...simple good-conquers-evil parable of that libretto into a chilling Gothic horror tale of clashing wills between God and the devil. A year later, Capobianco launched Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele a a space-age sonet lumière production in which the devil seemed about to vanquish the music of the spheres until he was whistled down at final curtain. Contemporary operas seldom fare well with the public, but Alberto Ginastera's atonal, astringent Bomarzo and Don Rodrigo are successful items in the repertory...
...Right Form: The filmmaker must take a dialectical view of his activity-not as a final synthesis, an outcome, but as the starting point for new ideas and acts. He must vanquish the notion of irrevocable structures and definitive statements, so as to restore the people's faith in their own power to shape history, to invent their own modes of struggle. And this demystification must be achieved in praxis by creating forms that remain open, unfinished, and that include the people and their abilities to analyze, debate, and take action. It is one thing to speak of the people...
...conditioned by team sports that they look at every job as a competition with an opponent to vanquish. They take over City Hall with no experience in keeping tabs on daily operations which require continuity and it becomes for them a series of political encounters. The job of mayors is essentially a scaling-up of the running of a household. Women understand better how to get from day to day while men come to the job having no experience in supervising even a small-scale operation and suddenly they expect to manage an enormous...
...insurgents, on the other hand, number at most 3,000 and are poorlyequipped. Many are fighting with primitive spears made out of rusty car springs. They have one gun for every ten men. United under the slogan "Vanquish or Die." the rebels have formed a political-military organization. The National Front of Liberation For Chad (FROLINAT). It's self-proclaimed spokesman is a 44-year-old surgeon, Dr. Aba Siddick, who is exiled in Tripoli, Libya...
...other, either Harvard. Clarkson or Bosten University, will be chosen this weekend, and ironically, Harvard has a realistic chance even if it fails to vanquish the Big Red tonight...