Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...daughter, Marzelline, and the turnkey Jacquino, and Bass Oskar Czerwenka contributed a strong, virile-voiced Jailer Rocco. But in their first-act quartet in the form of a canon, Mir ist so wunderbar, the four were often shakily uneven. The only real star of the evening proved to be Canadian Tenor Jon Vickers as Florestan, who sang his moving second-act aria, In des Lebens Frühlingstagen (In the springtime days of life), with conviction and power. The orchestra under Conductor Karl Boehm was ragged, and the winds tootled some of the wrongest notes to pierce...
...group of sharpers moved in, said Lefkowitz. Knowing the stock was astronomically overpriced, they began selling short. Among those known to have sold short, said Lefkowitz, were two ex-convicts, Sidney Barcley and Morris ("The Weasel") Miller, who got one-year prison terms in 1958 for SEC violations involving Canadian oil and uranium stocks. After the price plummeted, Barcley made the rounds of sweating brokerage houses offering "mob money" to bail the brokers out and take over their businesses...
...article, "The Surprising '50s," you stated: "In 1958 the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. completed the longest (4,000 miles) microwave relay network in the world. TIME erred...
Canada's transcontinental microwave relay system was constructed primarily for telephone service by the Trans-Canada Telephone System. It is operated and maintained by the member companies of that system. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation leases transcontinental television facilities from us-thus making its network (not its microwave relay) the longest in the world...
Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic (CBS, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). Despite the billing, the star is Composer Igor Stravinsky, making his U.S. TV debut as he conducts excerpts from his Firebird Suite. Canadian Pianist Glenn Gould plays the first movement of Bach's D-Minor Concerto, and Soprano Eileen Farrell sings the "Suicidio" aria from La Gioconda...