Word: victor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Victor Riesel: symbol of courage, devoid of fear...
...VICTOR LISTER Leominster, Mass...
...plot of Ernani, based on a Victor Hugo play, resembles a travesty of all grand-opera plots. The main motivation seems to be the handsome Bandit Ernani's death wish. Before he finally kills himself in Act IV, he gets into all sorts of entanglements with the King of Spain, an old grandee, and the woman who is desired by all of them. Amidst a welter of prayers, supplications, pageants and credos, nothing occurs resembling a human relationship. Similarly, the score, composed when Verdi was 30, sounds like a not very funny satire of Verdian music that put listeners...
...sweaters, coats and scarves, Dolores trudged up and down in biting winds and swirling snow before her employer's shabby office bearing a defiant placard: "On Strike." Her complaint was that the union would not let her keep her job if she married a construction worker named Victor Bosnak...
STIFFER ANTITRUST LAWS will be pushed in next Congress by Justice Department. Assistant Attorney General Victor Hansen, top U.S. trustbuster, will ask for power to stop bank mergers carried out by buying assets, in addition to Justice Department's existing power to act against such mergers carried out by buying stock. Hansen also wants advance notice when big companies merge, force them to give information necessary to prepare antitrust suits...