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...version. Although his first show used liberal excerpts from Russian broadcasts on the Soviet superbomb, it is not all somber stuff. He points out that Radio Moscow, for reasons of its own, goes in for such novelties as the American folk song All God's Chillun Got Wings, sung in phonetic English by Russian schoolchildren ("They are just trying to be folksy," he believes...
...where Jupiter is having trouble with his wife Juno. She berates him for his old trick of assuming the shape of a shepherd, a bull or a swan for purposes of dalliance ("Though the girls are squeezable," leers Cupid, "with a swan it isn't feasible"). Jupiter (well sung and acted by Baritone Ralph Herbert) takes Juno and the other gods on a junket to Hades, where they bump into Eurydice; after a few random shots from Cupid's bow, everything ends in a happy shambles. The "go-to-hell" joke is worked pretty hard in the dialogue...
...mood with each intermission. Moreover, critics noted, the Von Einem score was derivative - now a dash of Puccini, now Tchaikovsky, now Stravinsky. The opera's best feature : three scenes in which Joseph K. (superbly characterized by German Tenor Max Lorenz) is involved with different women, all beautifully sung by Switzerland's Soprano Lisa Delia Casa (who will appear at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera this season). These scenes are effectively composed in a perfumed, formal style...
...Afrikaans, Palmolive's commercial, sung to the tune of "A Tisket, A Tasket," goes like this...
Shortly before, the plotters were the respected "champions of the masses." Lee Sung Yup, now accused as ringleader, was North Korea's Justice Minister and mayor of Seoul during the 1950 Communist occupation. Pae Choi, an officer trained in the Soviet army, supervised the Reds' "guerrilla guidance bureau," and helped plan the Koje prisoners' riots. Cho Yun Nyong was Pyongyang's deputy Propaganda Minister. Im Hwa directed the Korea-Soviet Cultural Society. Last week, in North Korea's first major purge trials, these and six others drew the death penalty. Two other "plotters...