Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John L. Patterson '51 will sing the title role of Amadis opposite Marguerite Willauer of the Boston Symphony. William Flavin will sing Florestan and Peter Coyne '51 will sing Arcalus. Adele Milhender and Anne English will sing Arcabonne and Corisande. The opera's plot, a "lyrical tragedy" on the ideals of courtly love, has been cut and modernized...
...paid the Haitian government $750,000 damages and signed a peace pact. Eleven years later, he was allowing nightly broadcasts by an exiled Haitian calling on his countrymen to revolt. Barely a year ago, after a Haitian appeal, the Organization of American States found Trujillo guilty of fomenting another plot against Haiti...
They leased a 237-acre plot near Managua, got a $7,000 bank loan, bought a tractor on credit, and set to work. Neither of them had ever operated a tractor before. "We had a big field," Dick recalls, "so we just turned her loose and fiddled around until we sort of got the hang of it." Once they found out how to run the tractor, they fitted it with lights and ran it at night...
King Solomon's Mines. The plot (with Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger) is easy to see through, but the Technicolor shots of African animals and vistas are well worth looking at (TIME...
...workers. The workers grab the chance, production soars, and the factory runs along with enthusiastic efficiency. But the workers are no managers, a complicated contract turns up, and they finally have to reactivate their old boss to help them out. It takes some remarkably restrained acting to keep the plot from soaking the moviegoer with a flood of melodrama...