Word: stating
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...State Secret. Chills and chuckles in a British chase-melodrama set behind the Iron Curtain; with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (TIME...
When Jockey Don Meade's third "lifetime" suspension was lifted by the Florida State Racing Commission (TIME, Dec. 18), the National Association of Racing Commissioners raised an outraged bellow. Last week, Jockey Meade himself got the Florida commission off the spot. In a tearful statement ("I had no idea all the trouble it would cause . . . I'm brokenhearted"), Bad Boy Meade withdrew his application for a Florida license...
...afterwards George IV). On the day of the premiere, King George III, who was sponsoring a rival theater and tiffing with the Prince, closed up the Orfeo theater with troops. Haydn pocketed his ?300, forgot the opera for the time being. Landon found one score in Berlin's State Library, another in the Esterhazy archives of Budapest's State Library, but both were incomplete. At one point, the frustrated musicologists had begun composing a recitative to fill in a gap when the missing part suddently turned up in a misnumbered manuscript...
...opera has an unhappy ending: Orfeo's beautiful singing is not enough to bring his Eurydice back from the dead; Orfeo himself is poisoned by the Bacchae. Enthusiastic Robbins Landon, who recorded Orfeo with singers, chorus and orchestra (cut to a Haydn-prescribed 40 pieces) of the Vienna State Opera, was ready to predict that "it will hold its own alongside [Mozart's] Don Giovanni. We don't believe in resuscitating something from the dead unless it's really a killer. And this...
Lucien has no sooner plunged into politics than he has "a sensation of swimming in mud." His father had forewarned him: "You only direct the dirty work, you never do it yourself. The principle is this: every government, even that of the United States, lies always and about everything; when it can't lie on the main issue, it lies about the details. There are good lies and bad. Good ones are those that the [middle class] believes; excellent ones catch some of the carriage public; execrable ones are those nobody believes, and that only the most shameless ministries...