Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...today's public seems to accept today's tenors, Italian and otherwise. Pavarotti and Domingo thrill audiences the world over with what once would be considered dull singing, a trend that confirms my suspicion of a steady decline in operatic sensibilities. This decline may have started at roughly the same time that Opera began to die as an art form: something which occurred after the death of Puccini and before that of Benjamin Britten. We are now an artistically starved audience, looking at the operatic stage not as an expression of contemporary life, but as a musical museum, where singers...
Michael J. Curry '80, a member of the Bach Society Orchestra, said yesterday the orchestra would lose some of its best soloists if the faculty advisers refused to accept outside performers...
...self-appointed advocate of the capitalist system. In fact, I question whether anyone, never mind an outfielder for the Boston Red Sox, deserves such loot. However, major league baseball has become a multi-million dollar entertainment business, and the press and fans must accept that fact...
Relatively speaking, athletes receiving the big money are worth every cent of their contract. The profits that once went to the owners are now rerouted to the players, the source of that income. The fans, the public, and the media must accept baseball as the full-fledged entertainment business it has become, a business controlled by the rulers of hamburger, whiskey, chewing gum, lumber, and brewery empires. Fans should not condemn the players for demanding and receiving a larger measure of the revenue they themselves generate. As Judge Frank said in 1949, "Only the totalitarian-minded will believe that high...
...widow living with two children would receive $3,600. But there would be a catch: to receive aid, every adult deemed capable of working would have to look for a job. If unable to find one in 13 weeks, he or she would have to accept a job created by the Government, and put in 20 to 32 hours a week. Sample jobs that would be set up: janitorial work, road construction and office clerking. Pay would be at the prevailing minimum wage level, which is now $2.30 an hour. For every dollar made by an adult, the amount...