Word: bumper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...influx began about three years ago because of complementary conditions in the U.S. and Germany. The U.S., unbombed and eating well, produced bumper postwar harvests of singers, but had few opera houses in which to employ them, while Germany had rebuilt its 80 opera houses faster than it could replace their depleted ranks of singers. Americans flocked in, were often hired over Germans of comparable ability simply because of their healthy good-looks. German audiences, with their insatiable hunger for opera (Munich alone puts on more performances in a year than all major U.S. companies combined), showed no resentment...
...survey of the university, promptly "nagged" (i.e., marked for elimination or downgrading) one out of ten university posts. In spite of the campus' growth, the division still stands by that 1950 report. Once, when Mather appealed for extra hands to help with the school of agriculture's bumper crop, the division said no. The crop rotted, and at considerable expense the university had to buy its food on the open market. All in all, the setup has been so suffocating that the Phi Beta Kappa senate has refused to charter a university chapter...
...Overall production rose 10% in 1955. Production of cotton, the nation's No. i export commodity, rose 15%, with a bumper 2,000,000 bales...
Verdi: Aïda (Angel). The old pulse bumper, with Soprano Maria Callas leading a fine cast...
...which is to singers what the Palace was to Eileen Farrell's vaudeville parents, is sagging under a bumper crop of top sopranos and has made Farrell no overtures. She does not mind, among other reasons because she is not willing to trim her imposing figure to the stylish slimness theoretically desired, if rarely attained, at the Met. Says she: "I tried, but I felt terrible...