Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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In New Delhi, citing Lazarus' finger-chewing story as evidence, Jawaharlal Nehru again lectured his Parliament on the brutality of the regime headed by Congolese Strongman Colonel Joseph Mobutu. Again a check by Willie's competitors demolished his scoop: an inspection by a Belgian doctor found Lumumba under...
"I was brought up to believe that it is polite to wait until you are asked," Soprano Eileen Farrell invariably replied when people wondered why she had never sung at the Met. The Metropolitan Opera's Rudolf Bing continued to ignore Farrell, either because of misplaced gallantry over her...
Dated Legend. Getting ready for the Met meant a major change in Farrell's earthy, uninhibited and unpretentious way of life. She moved into a suite in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel from her twelve-room Staten Island house in order to get away from the distractions of her...
But for all of Farrell's breezy modernity, Alcestis was still hopelessly dated, notwithstanding Gluck's prediction that "time does not exist for it, because the piece is founded upon nature and has nothing to do with fashion." Written in 1767, it retells the legend of King Admetus...
Confident Wait. The opera is typical of everything the romantics fought when they rebelled against classicism: it is full of beautiful melodies but undramatic, full of abstract nobility but without real human beings. Nor was Alcestis improved by the Met's pseudo-Greek staging and top-heavy production featuring...