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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early one Saturday last May, a thin, grim line started forming outside the Royal Opera House at London's Covent Garden. All through the long Whitsun weekend it sweltered and swelled, until, the following Tuesday, tickets went on sale for the first London performance of Cherubini's Medea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Callas at Covent Garden | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

The Story of the Blues (Delia Reese with Sy Oliver and his orchestra; Jubilee). Songstress Reese is the victim of a saccharine script of interpolated commentary ("You're gonna hear the truth, 'cause that's all the blues is"). But when she is allowed to sing, as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jazz Records | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Not all such examples are amusing. Use of the mails for medical quackery, according to Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield, is at an alltime high. Millions fall for quackery because their own physicians' advice is undramatic, especially in fields such as cancer, where the physician cannot guarantee a cure. An...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Revival of Quackery | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

One of the Villa Giulia's unquestioned Etruscan masterpieces is the Sarcophagus of the Spouses (above-), found in the ancient Etruscan city of Caere (now the small town of Cerveteri, some 25 miles outside Rome) and recently reassembled. Molded from terra cotta in the 6th century B.C., it is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Treasures of Etruria | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

The Greeks strove to hold a timeless image up to man. The Romans grew to love the grandiose and the particular. The Etruscans, who insisted that art must above all else be expressive, and who felt free to warp and distort their images to infuse them with energy, are equally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Treasures of Etruria | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

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