Word: adrift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, having cast Director Laszlo Halasz adrift, the New York City Opera announced a spring season in the best Halasz tradition. In addition to eleven operas from current repertory, it promised productions of i) Alban Berg's tragic opera, Wozzeck, which no U.S. audience has seen in 21 years, 2) a stage version of Gian-Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, and 3) a new adaptation, by Marc Blitzstein, of Kurt Weill's The Three-Penny Opera. Possible hitch: Halasz, who is still fighting his year-end dismissal (TIME, Dec. 31), contends that, under...
...other in plant elections. As a result, they have lost some members to a "no union" vote or to the A.F.L. This tussling became a major problem after the C.I.O. in 1949 expelled eleven Communist-dominated unions. Other C.I.O. unions began to scramble for the 800,000 thus cut adrift. United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther and President James B. Carey of the International Union of Electrical Workers have been feuding bitterly over 30,000 former members of the expelled United Electrical Workers Union. Last July, the problem was sharply illustrated when three C.I.O. unions, chemical, electrical and oil, battled...
...Blue Veil's first episode could hold its own as part of an omnibus film like Quartet. Governess Wyman, a widow who has lost her own baby, gently parries Widower Laughton's attentions and loses him willingly to his designing secretary (Vivian Vance), who thereupon cuts her adrift from the household and from the little toddler she has grown to love...
...guilty old dilemma. Wiligis and Sibylla, twin children of the Duke of Flauadres and Artoys, fall into incestuous love. When a child is conceived, guilty Wiligis goes off to die on a pilgrimage, while Sibylla penitently vows never to marry. When little Gregorius is born, he is cast adrift in a little boat, with a note that tells his story but not his identity. Gregorius is saved by fishermen and grows up in a monastery. In due time, of course, he goes out in the world to unravel his origin-and meets and marries the Duchess Sibylla...
...from-the-bottom stories; few are quite so dramatic and revealing as Sarnoff's. Owen D. Young said that Sarnoff had lived "the most amazing romance of its kind on record." Horatio Alger himself could hardly have done it in one book; he would have needed Adrift in New York, Nelson the Newsboy, The Telegraph Boy and Joe's Luck or Always Wide Awake...