Word: binge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...While studying the nature of religious experience, Clare Mead underwent a consciousness-expanding experiment at Manhattan's Foundation for Mind Research; her report became a feature in TIME'S Religion section. Dorothea Bourne has interviewed cover subjects on location in such varied places as Edinburgh (Rudolf Bing), Chicago's South Side (Louis Armstrong) and Washington (Mamie Eisenhower), Other times, a staffer-even in World -has had to travel no farther than rosstown for the kind of story that is a function of TIME. Nancy Chase fas the first person from any major U.S. publication to interview representatives...
With that touch of urbane cynicism, Rudolf Bing last week introduced the man who will succeed him two seasons hence as general manager of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. He is Sweden's Goran Gentele (pronounced Joran Gften-tell-uh), 53, who for the past seven years has directed the Royal Opera House in Stockholm. He will move to the Met next June to learn the ropes during Bing's final season. When Gentele takes full control in July 1972, he will assume the most prestigious, toughest and probably the highest-paying (reportedly $100,000 a year) administrative...
...virtual unknown whose work has been seen outside Europe only once. At Montreal's Expo 67, his company staged productions of Tristan, Ballo in Maschera and an Ingmar Bergman-directed Rake's Progress to excellent critical acclaim. In the guessing game that followed Bing's decision to retire, Gentele's name did not figure among the popular favorites: Conductors Leonard Bernstein and Erich Leinsdorf, Impresarios Julius Rudel of the New York City Opera and Hamburg's Rolf Liebermann and Composer Peter Mennin, the president of Juilliard. "I didn't even know myself until three...
...Bing was a gifted fund raiser, but not much of a collective bargainer; still his act will be tough to follow. Although criticized for his arrogance and for the woefully uneven quality of Met productions, he undeniably brought the company back from the edge of artistic bankruptcy and vanishing prestige to which it had fallen under the regime of the late Edward Johnson. By the time Bing quits, he will have lasted 22 seasons−longer than any other general manager except Giulio Gatti-Casazza (1908-35). But if charm counts for anything, and it certainly does among the matrons...
...said U. S. warplanes "repeatedly attacked many populated areas, communication lines and economic establishments in Quang Bing and Ha Tinh provinces" in the southern-most corner of North Vietnam, which borders Laos below the 19th parallel. "Many flights...