Perturbed at being overtaken, the USS Texas is leading the 6th Battle Squadron at 22-and-a-half knots as the engineers pour everything they have into the effort. Behind the colossal clouds of smoke and cinders they put out come a seemingly-endless stream of dreadnoughts, battle flags flying from every mast and line they can find. It is the Grand Fleet.

The sweet success story told about the past of Taiwan's earliest sugarland—Chiaotou in Kaohsiung County—had an audience of about ten thousand on May 1st when the National Festival of Culture and Arts opened in the compound of the Taiwan Sugar[…]

The instatement ceremony I witnessed in June 1994 was among the more significant events that would mark the transition of this young prince toward the status of a newly established ruler, or ampanjakabe.

But while in Jézabel Jehu's inward calling triumphs forcefully over Jezebel's sensuous temptation, in his agonizingly torn condition the hero of Schelomo can offer only bitter resignation. However effective this last, Don Quixotesque moment is in the music, it does not neutralize the luxurious sensuality of the score.