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...governmental austerity ruling that cut back their budget 30%, officials of Venice's famed International Festival of Contemporary Music had canceled the prestigious operatic premiéres of earlier years (e.g., Stravinsky's own 1951 Rake's Progress, Britten's 1954 Turn of the Screw, Prokofiev's 1955 Flaming Angel), pinned all their hopes and a large part of their remaining budget on the world premiére of Stravinsky's Canticum Sacrum ad Honorem Sancti Marci Nominis (Canticle to Honor the Name of St. Mark...
...some of his flight aids. On their prize Tu-104 jet transport, for example, the auto pilot was "right out of our old B17. You can buy one in any junk market for six dollars." But, said Lear, he was not planning to sell "a single bolt or screw" to the Russians...
Beyond a few superficial pleasantries, the noncoms processing the new troops at Fort Burnside make the familiar old G.I. sounds : "You men can make it easy on yourselves or hard on yourselves, and I don't particularly care which, because I can play it both ways ... if you screw up around here, your behinds will be grass and I will be the lawnmower...
...training cycle's end, Andy marries Susan and gets picked as a cadreman to train incoming recruits. "I'm a hard man but a fair one," he tells them. "If you screw it up, your behinds are grass, and Sergeant Sheaffer is the lawnmower...
...whole situation to a friend. "It's not really me that's late. It's the others who are in such a hurry." The truth is that Marilyn has been so terrified of failure during most of her life that she has often had to screw up her courage for the slightest encounter with the world. Before the least important interview she will put on her makeup five or six times before she is satisfied with her looks. "And then, too," a friend points out, "when she is late she feels guilty, and since she has always...