Word: veils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Woodworth, by eliminating flutes, clarinets, and horns from the orchestra, reproduced, the work as it probably sounded in Handel's own day. The resulting orchestral restraint was matched by generally subdued part of the concert seemed tonally veiled--noticeably different from the exuberance of most productions. Not until the chorus, Glory to God in the Highest was the veil lifted. The trumpets, which had been silent through the first half of the concert, suddenly joined with a choral fortissimo entrance in what was one of the evening's greatest moments...
...wife will prescribe for the monarch's four legal wives" and his ample harem. She will have to observe local ground rules and wear a veil when out of doors...
...Lebanon, which is officially half Christian and half Moslem, women press for reforms through nearly 100 women's clubs dominated by beloved old Ibtihaj Kha-doura, who in 1930 became the first Lebanese woman to rip off the veil...
...haven't cried at a movie for a long time, want to watch an actress age 60 years in an hour, and enjoy all-star productions, then by all means see. "The Blue Veil." Beyond these sentimental attractions, however, producers Jerry Wald and Norman Krasna have squeezed little else from a dull, pointless story...
Jane Wyman provides the tears, the blue veil, the old age, and part of the stardom. The movie opens with her giving birth to her child, continues through the death of her soldier-husband and baby, and climaxes in her decision to give up marriage and devote herself to the blue veil, the sign of a children's nurse...