Word: boulevards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...figure in the racing world. It could have been done in no other way. Detroit, having spent 20 years meeting the public's demand for soggy sponge springing, mush-o-matic drive and steering, and cumbersome chrome bathtub exteriors, is disinclined to risk the reputations of its unwieldy boulevard barges in competition (cheers to Lincoln and similar exceptions...
...Rome Opera House puts great stress on some kinds of decorum: the doorman turned famed Composer Igor Stravinsky away one night last week because he was not in formal dress. But Romans have no rules against hoots and whistles during a performance that fails to please them. Boulevard Solitude, a muchdiscussed, three-year-old opera by a 27-year-old German named Hans Werner Henze, went against the grain that night and drew a record outburst...
After a successful series of performances in Germany, Boulevard Solitude was chosen as a showpiece for Rome's two-week International Conference on Contemporary Music. Familiar as they were with operatic plots featuring faithless love (Pagliacci), harlotry (Traviata), rape (Don Giovanni), incest (Die Walküre), bastardy (Norma), Gomorrahism (The Rake's Progress) and murder (Tosca, etc.), Rome's select first-night audience balked at Boulevard Solitude...
Married. Charles Brackett, 61, topflight Hollywood producer-director-writer (Lost Weekend, Sunset Boulevard); and Lillian Fletcher, fiftyish, his sister-in-law; he for the second time (his first wife, Elizabeth Fletcher Brackett, died in 1948), she for the first; in Tucson, Ariz...
...unplanned-for industrial city has mushroomed just beyond the capital's fig-shaped circumferential boulevard, and some of the well-chaperoned girls who used to promenade under the lights in the palace square now work in bright new textile mills. A $20 million, German-financed steel-tube plant is under construction, and five cement companies are moving in. Though smiling at comparisons with lordly Sao Paulo, Mineiros agree that their state's natural wealth (manganese, thorium, bauxite, eleven billion tons of iron) points logically to the development of heavy industry. For his part, Juscelino just wants...