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Samuel Ramey gives the devil his due in `Faust'
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Is the devil a charming fellow?
He is if he's played by Samuel Ramey, the lean, mean
Mephistopheles of the Lyric Opera production of Gounod's "Faust,"
running through Nov. 7. Ramey offstage comes on as a serious,
hardworking American singer, but without an aura of brimstone.
"The bad guys always have more fun," he pointed out with the
grin of someone who approves of having fun but probably has never
done anything especially bad. Ramey, a handsome, 6-foot, 175-pound
character, looks as if he spent his time in a health club rather than
a rehearsal room.
"My costume was designed for ...
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A NOTE ON PETER BLEGVAD.
Magazine article from: Chicago Review
; The American artist Peter Blegvad was born in New York City in...borrow Walter Benjamin's comment on Johann Peter Hebel: "He declines to accept the check...s songwriting, put it this way: "Peter Blegvad's work contains some of the...
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BOOKS PAPERBACKS
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...unquestionably scholarly. The result is funny, but it is also unsettling. ! The Treasure Chest by Johann Peter Hebel, trs John Hibberd, Penguin pounds 6.99. Hebel was a schoolmaster and Lutheran pastor whose collection of very brief tal
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Zur Stadt Paris.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today
; The Swiss author Peter Bichsel, born in Luzern in 1935, has received a number of major...and stories, including the Preis der Gruppe 47 (1965) and the Johann Peter Hebel Prize (1986). Students of German know him primarily through such...
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Grosse kommentierte Berliner und Frankfurter Ausgabe. 18: Prosa 3: Sammlungen und Dialoge.
Magazine article from: World Literature Today
; ...author from the seventeenth century, Grimmelshausen, as well as the undisputed master of that entire subgenre, Johann Peter Hebel from the early nineteenth century; more recently, Brecht's fellow countryman Oskar Maria Graf had published two...
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RADIO CHOICE.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...first of three mysteries this week from The Treasure Chest (Radio 4, 3.30pm) by 19th-century German writer Johann Peter Hebel. Impresario Larry Parnes got Tommy Hicks to change his name to Tommy Steele -- and, so the rumour went, he wanted...
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Folk and Fairy Tales. A Handbook
Magazine article from: Marvels & Tales
; ...taken from printed sources and stem from well-known collections (Fanchatantra, Gesta Romanorum, Thomas Percy, Johann Peter Hebel, Brothers Grimm). Chapter 4 is quite short and is dedicated to scholarship. It outlines different approaches...
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Heidegger, technology, and the homeland.
Magazine article from: The Germanic Review
; ...what follows, I will look at Heidegger's discourse about the homeland, roots, landscape, and the poetry of Johann Peter Hebel as constituting a rustic form of politics whose meaning has been missed. I hope to show that the very topos of the...
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In the Mirror of the Eighth King.(Review)
Magazine article from: Chicago Review
; ...Middleton traces a long genealogy for the form, from Apuleius and Attar, through Thomas Traherne, Pascal, and Johann Peter Hebel, to Nietzsche, Kafka, and Benjamin, Shuntaro Tanikawa, Slawomir Mrozek, and Rosmarie Waldrop. (An even more...
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The Cure.(Short Story)
Magazine article from: Quadrant
; Despite having bags of money, rich people sometimes still have to put up with all kinds of trials and illnesses which, thank God, are completely unknown to the poor man. There are illnesses which lurk, not in the air, but in filled plates and glasses, and in easy chairs and satin beds. A particular
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