Word: noting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...another. Insisting that he would never write another opera, Verdi was drawn to Nabucco in spite of himself. After he reluctantly agreed to read the libretto (by Temistocle Solera, a minor 19th century poet), he found himself writing "one day a verse, the next day another; one time a note, another a phrase, and little by little the opera." The subject was a natural for mid-igth century Italy: the captivity of the Jews under King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, reminiscent to Italian audiences of their own fate under Austrian rule. The third act chorus of chained prisoners, "Va', pensiero...
...Return to Orthodoxy." Weather-head's successor, Dr. Leonard Griffith. 40, last week sounded a new and sterner note. Lancashire-born Preacher Griffith was taken to Canada by his opera-singer parents when he was eight, joined the ministry 15 years ago, served Ottawa's fashionable United Church for the past eleven years. He accepts the Bible as divinely inspired, is not a whit interested in psychiatry. In a church whose tradition is liberal, he is perhaps the true nonconformist: a conservative...
...housewives: it is the substance that makes jelly jell. Keys found that taking 15 grams of pectin daily for three weeks lowered blood cholesterol levels by an average of ten milligrams-"a modest but significant amount." For Americans who want to keep the doctor away, Keys added a familiar note: his 15-gram daily dose corresponds roughly to the amount of pectin found in two ripe apples...
This week the Boston Museum of Fine Arts opens a major show of 151 drawings, oils and watercolors intended to remind Americans that Maurice Prendergast was, in fact, a rebel of note. Timid by nature and without a shred of temperament, he painted a sunshine world of parks, picnics and parasols, and peopled it with a race of doll-like creatures who seemed on perpetual holiday. Yet he was the first U.S. artist to paint with broken colors, helped organize New York's 1913 Armory Show, which clamorously launched "modern art" in the U.S. His big trouble since...
...license from Pepsi-Cola, will have a capacity of 8,000,000 cases of Pepsi a year. In changing West Africa, where the people love sweet, fizzing drinks and where foreign businessmen are finding that they must hard-sell for the first time, Satchmo's long-holding C note was an advertising message understood by even the many illiterate citizens. Pepsi-Cola's C notes were also holding well. Sales in Ghana have gone up by 53% since Satchmo arrived...