Word: versions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presents a stereotypical version of the key signers of the Declaration of Independence and their sometimes abrasive, sometimes soporific deliberations at the Second Continental Congress. The musical succeeds only in bringing the heroic, tempestuous birth of a people and a polity down to a feeble vaudevillian jape...
...Cavell's version of the plan left out two clauses in the original Afro proposal--sections referring to a committee's power to review tenure appointments and to publish tenure hearings. Cavell said that the two clauses would be discussed at the April 22 meeting. But since he referred to them under the numbering system of the original Afro proposal--and not under the system of the revised version he had circulated among the Faculty--many professors were confused and postponed debate...
Invited by La Scala to conduct a Rossini work for the centenary of the composer's death, Schippers spent months scouring the operatic dustbins of Europe and the U.S. for a workable score of The Siege. He finally discovered a copy of the original Naples version among some old manuscripts in the Library of Congress. A French publisher lent him fragments of Rossini's orchestration for the first Paris performance. The Rossini library in Pesaro, Italy, the composer's home town, produced a score of the initial La Scala production. Schippers took what seemed...
...Topol began his show-business career as a barracks clown in the Israeli army. His performances became such a morale factor that headquarters ordered him to be an actor. He has been following those orders ever since. Topol's most important future role is Tevye in the film version of Fiddler on the Roof...
...World War I nurse, became Catherine in A Farewell to Arms; a hard-drinking English aristocrat, Lady Duff Twysden, turned up as Lady Brett in The Sun Also Rises; the aging colonel's lissome contessa in Across the River and Into the Trees is a highly romanticized version of 19-year-old Adriana Ivancich, an Italian beauty whom the Hemingways knew in Venice...