Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact that they can set copy twice as fast (an average 400 lines, or 5⅓ columns, an hour, with less than one error per 100 lines) as the automatic Linotypes can cast it, moved TIME'S production chief to say that they are "the best teletypesetters anywhere." I can't testify to that, but I do know that the weekly Publisher's Letter (among the many innovations they have been called upon to set on their machines) is their trickiest job. The perforators were not designed to set type around illustrations, and it takes ingenuity, experience...
...people felt so strongly about the sacredness of His Majesty, the first all-Japanese performance of The Mikado was all set to be played last week in Tokyo.* Nervous, white-haired Michio Ito, who had spent 20 years in the U.S. directing dance productions, had rehearsed the cast for two months. The 49-man Tokyo Philharmonic had been drilled on the tricky rhythms of Sullivan's music. Kiyoshi Takagi, as Ko-Ko, had learned how to sing "teet wiro. teet wiro." The producers had gambled a whopping 1,800,000 yen ($36,000) on the production. Reserved seats went...
Next day, the cast gave a consolation full-dress performance for itself behind locked doors. Stagehands, performers and hangers-on wept when it was over. The chorus sung by Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo and Pitti-Sing seemed peculiarly appropriate...
...cast has used up 57 red wigs, costing...
Like smart young Composer Gian-Carlo (The Medium) Menotti (TIME, March 3), Britten has written for a small cast and a chamber orchestra so that his opera can be performed easily and often. His newest music is easier to listen to than to sing. Said Baritone Frank Rogier, who sang the role of Seducer Tarquinius: "Any time you sound in tune with the orchestra, you're off. So you go in the other direction." But Britten's insistent, subtle use of rhythmic and dissonant backgrounds put a wallop into Librettist Ronald Duncan's seething play. The opera...