Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bigger festivals, it combined showy elegance with serious endeavor. Gaudiest attractions were operas with attractive melodies shaded by silly plots: Spontini's rarely performed Agnes von Hohenstaufen, Weber's Euryanthe and Puccini's Girl of the Golden West. Euryanthe was presented in its uncut version and the audience learned to appreciate the program note from a Weber contemporary: "This man writes for eternity and so his operas never end." Other festival events were concerts under Wilhelm Furtwängler, Guido Cantelli and Bruno Walter...
...really individual musical. And the Phoenix's Golden Apple, like the Theatre de Lys' End As a Man, like the Circle in the Square's Girl on the Via Flaminia, went uptown in time to Broadway. Other off-Broadway successes: Marc Blitzstein's English version of Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera, Leslie Stevens' Bullfight, and-after a late opening the season before-The World of Sholem Aleichem...
...reserves are bigger (estimated at as high as 750 million bbls.). Hunt, a lone wolf who hardly knows the new Athenians, uses his oil wealth to spread his far-right views through such media as radio & TV's Facts Forum. He lives in a Texas version of Mount Vernon, i.e., bigger. ¶ Hugh Roy Cullen, 72, of Houston, is another far-right winger, but no friend of H. L. Hunt. He is Senator McCarthy's patron saint in Texas, has contributed to McCarthy's campaigns and right-wing Republican causes. Cullen has also contributed much to Houston...
Flame and the Flesh (MGM) works hard at making Lana Turner into a Hollywood version of a realistic Italian actress...
...sell butter to distributors at very low prices might have helped but at best it would merely slow the piling up of surpluses and cost the U.S. $100 million just to administer. Likeliest of all, said Benson, was a "plant payment plan" that would operate much like a version of the old Brannan plan. Under the plant payment plan, the Government would allow the market price of butter to drop to its natural level, then pay butter manufacturers the difference between market and support level prices. Even the best of the plans, said Benson, would cost the Government from...