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Machine-Gunning the House. In the area of repertory, Bing's record at the old Met speaks for itself: 50 new productions, three U.S. premieres (Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, Strauss's Arabella, Menotti's The Last Savage), and one world premiere (Barber's Vanessa). His own taste favors Italian opera; he is only lukewarm about Wagner and, with a few exceptions, indifferent to modern. Compared with Milan's La Scala or West Berlin's opera, whose repertories are laced with contemporary works, the Met, as one critic puts it, "remains...
...been 95 years since Iowa's Mrs. Arabella A. Mansfield hung out her shingle as the first licensed woman attorney in the U.S. In that same year, 1869, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Illinois State Bar's refusal to admit Mrs. Myra Bradwell with the observation that "the natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belong to the female sex evidently unfit it for many of the occupations of civil life." Today in the U.S., the woman lawyer lives and works in a society that has long since accepted a Myra Bradwell's right to practice...
This return shipment was made only because the importer wanted the new Arabella model instead of the model Alexander...
...bestseller. The View from Pompey's Head, which told of present-day passions in the Tidewater South. The events of this new book are laid a century earlier but. despite the gold braid uniforms and the hoop skirts, the idiom is racily contemporary (says high-born Arabella of a suitor: "All he wanted was a chance to get under my skirts...
...gets him back to Pompey's Head for a last big scene in which he accepts a dying Negro as his illegitimate half-uncle and watches the family mansion burn to the ground, consuming Villain Monckton in the process. Penniless, but at last united in wedlock. John and Arabella are prepared to face together the perils of Reconstruction-just as soon as Author Basso gets around to writing the third novel of his planned trilogy about Pomoey's Head...