The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
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Aphorism 47Jean de La Bruyere
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Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.
C. L. R. James
Every day, almost as many men are killed at work as were killed during the average day in Vietnam. For men, there are, in essence, three male-only drafts: the draft of men to all the wars; the draft of Everyman to unpaid bodyguard; the draft of men to all the hazardous jobs—or ‘death professions.’
Warren Farrell
One of the reasons I enjoy going to the Opera is the spectacle of an audience enraptured. Their emotions are engaged, their passions brought to the fore, they become highly sensitive.
Derren Brown
I hear there's rumors on the internets [pause] that we're going to have a draft. We're not going to have a draft, period.
George W. Bush
We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny... The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witchhunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a Communist.
E. B. (Elwyn Brooks) White
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