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...this schoolroom in a converted rooming house in the capital, Stalin's praises were still being sung last week-but not for long. The Kremlin had ordered the Soviet School closed, and the 45 schoolkids (children of Russian diplomats and clerks) returned to Russia. In New York and London, other Soviet youngsters had also received their marching orders. By keeping them in separate schools, the Soviet government had tried to insulate their innocents abroad from corrupt and corrupting Western ideas. Apparently Moscow now thought that the only place they would really be safe from capitalist contamination was back home...
...come to depend on Varnay. In the six years since her Manhattan debut, she has sung more Wagnerian leads than any other Met performer. She is a small woman with grey eyes who likes bad puns, saves box tops and chews bubble gum. Still young (she made her debut at 23) and still slim, as divas go, she strides through each new role like a veteran. Critics have been respectful to her rich voice, have called her performances "creditable," have applauded her plucky last-minute substitute jobs...
...musicians' union had sent him; a leading tenor was feuding with the conductor. Could the chaotic season be steadied by a singer whom Mexican operagoers especially liked? The Opera Nacional had persuaded Astrid to come down and try some popular Italian operas. As usual, Astrid, who had never sung an Italian role, was glad to help...
These items are variously sung, brassed and narrated by such entertainers as the Andrews Sisters, Waring's Pennsylvanians, the Sons of the Pioneers, Roy Rogers, and Trigger, the Smartest Horse in the Movies, who looks perfectly capable of reciting the Gettysburg Address but keeps a more discreet silence than his colleagues...
...intricate, crowded feet (scaled roughly at a foot to a mile), the scroll follows a meandering road downriver, from dawn to dusk. In its 33-mile course, the road enters the gates of the high-walled Sung capital Pien-liang, and becomes a city street lined with pawnshops, paint shops, butcher shops, restaurants, lute shops, wineshops, needle shops, antique shops...