Word: acte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least one critic, the New York World-Telegram and The Sun's Louis Biancolli, confessed that the last act had reduced him to tears. Such weeping not withstanding, it was not the greatest Otello in Met history. Nor did it have the special attraction of Maria Callas (who scored a triumph the following night as the most convincing and moving Tosca of her time). Otello was merely excellent-and significant precisely because it was the kind of topnotch production that Rudolf Bing's Met can mount any night of the week it has a mind...
Schoenberg's music, at times hideously difficult, underscores the contrast: it is at its sweetest and most melodic in Act II when the people of Israel prostrate themselves before the Calf, at its harshest when Moses struggles with his hard faith. In the arguments of Moses and Aron, the brasses snarl, the chiseled strings shriek in a web of complicated polyphony. The score is made more difficult by Schoenberg's technique of interlocking choral and solo parts in an almost unintelligible cacophony. The Columbia recording (conducted by Germany's Hans Rosbaud) demonstrates that Composer Schoenberg may have...
...against cancer-the kind of uplift dear to Digest Editor (and Founder) DeWitt Wallace, son of a Presbyterian preacher. After a clinical follow-up piece on "What Husbands Don't Know About Sex," the magazine last June invited its readers to join Gynecologist Marion Hilliard in exploring "The Act of Love: Woman's Greatest Challenge...
...basement hideaway, in a world of beer and draw poker with a pal, of fledgling sex with a professor's daughter. The girl becomes pregnant. Arthur tries to signal to his parents but cannot, then uses a forged check to pay for an abortion. In a suspenseful last act, everything suddenly comes out well-in fact, a little too much...
Lost Cause. G.E. had been leading a lost cause ever since 1952, when the federal McGuire Act legalized Fair Trade laws. In Fair Trade states, manufacturers, exempted by the McGuire Act from antitrust prosecution, were permitted to fix minimum prices for an entire state so long as they signed a contract with one dealer; all others were bound, whether they signed or not. Yet no sooner were the laws on the books than retailers started breaking them, cut prices far below company minimums. In five years G.E. alone spent almost $5,000,000 tracking down violators, brought suit against more...