Word: thereness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There had been no time for a rehearsal -and no critical need for one, operatic acting being as internationally stylized as it is. That night the surprised audience saw a new blonde Brünnhilde moving around the stage as though she had been singing at the Met all her...
For Soprano Braun there was a special bit of backstage applause too. Manager Johnson handed her a Met contract, promised her a chance to sing some more Wagner before she and her husband leave for scheduled performances in Italy in February.
The fans saw only one brand-new work: Charles Weidman's Rose of Sharon, based on the Song of Solomon. With some ugly costumes, and little in the way of dance but posing and posturing, Rose had virtually no fragrance at all. But there were plenty of older works...
At present, man's basic knowledge about the physical universe is contained in two independent theories: 1) relativity, which deals with the gravitational fields produced by massive bodies; and 2) the quantum theory, which deals with electromagnetic effects. The two theories touch at many points, but there is no...
Unfortunately, none of the essays told Roger Babson how to make an anti-gravity screen. First Prizewinner David T. Wittry of the University of Wisconsin ($1,000) described historical attempts, all failures. Second Prizewinner C. Peter Johnson Jr. of Harvard ($500) dived into unproductive mathematics. Third Prizewinner: John C. Cook...