Word: cio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...single individual, Hoffa's past activities make him a poor candidate indeed to bear the responsibility. The Federal government has not stopped him. If he is not to take upon his shoulders the mantle of Protector of the Economy, united labor and intelligent management must act first. The AFL-CIO has so far shown little concern for the Hoffa threat. Though it has refused to readmit the Teamsters, the general enthusiasm for "ethical practices" so outspoken three years ago has largely waned...
What the AFL-CIO must do, however, is not to compromise with shady operations, but to intensify its own membership drive, which has lagged alarmingly in recent years. Management, too, would do well to be more receptive to moderate AFL-CIO organizing proposals so as to reduce the appeal of the more aggressive (but less ethical) Teamsters. The AFL-CIO is no small operation, it is true; but it is unquestionably more democratic and less monolithic than the Teamsters...
...cocky boss of the Teamsters has indeed hitched his wagon to a star. Only by offering unorganized labor something better than the economic security of benevolent despotism which Hoffa offers can the AFL-CIO unhorse...
Biggest Moment. What critics and audiences have wanted to say of Leontyne's Met performances is that they surpassed even the expectations raised by an already glowing European reputation. For her first Met season, Leontyne Price contracted to sing five roles: Leonora in ll Trovatore, Aïda, Cio-Cio-San in Butterfly, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Liu in Turandot. Her Leonora proved to be a remarkable portrayal of a woman in whom dignity struggled with desperation and in whom grief somehow shone more movingly through a profound sense of repose. The amalgam of qualities made her fourth...
...Butterfly she unveiled last week was, in contrast to her Leonora, a creature that lived on the surface of emotion -tentative, vulnerable but never mawkish. In the last act. when Soprano Price enacted the difficult suicide with a dignity that many a famed soprano is unable to muster, Cio-Cio-San ceased to be a quaintly pathetic figure and became what she rarely isa truly tragic...