Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Court decisions by modifying the First Amendment so as to permit voluntary prayer in public schools. Few religious leaders favored the amend ment, but that hardly daunted the minority leader. Who did support his cause? "Not the professionals in the church hierarchy," declared Dirksen. "Not the cocktail-party, luncheon-circuit bunch. I'm talking about the church members-the rank and file-and they're in favor...
...session. The department is strict in policing this policy, he said. But it is difficult to keep the students from talking with their friends about a course in which they are deeply involved. "We can only remind members of the class that they are not on a closed circuit and that what they say may be repeated out of class. This keeps the course from degenerating into a true confessions session," Bales added...
...have risen sharply-though many still have to go to Europe to serve their apprenticeship. But even that trend is beginning to reverse itself as Dallas, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Boston and Chicago develop their own troupes, though they still continue to import the finest singers from the international circuit. In 1950, for example, there were 200 opera companies in the U.S.; today there are more than 700-amateur and semiprofessional for the most part, but all bristling with energy and enterprise...
Preaching that an appearance on the Met stage is a unique honor, Bing insisted that the principal singers-who in the past were repeatedly lured away by the more lucrative concert circuit-either sign up for a longer season or none at all. The public responded in kind; in Bing's 16-year tenure, the Met season has expanded from 18 to 31 weeks, and the number of subscribers has grown from 5,000 to 17,000, with another 3,000 waiting longingly in line to get into a house that was 97% sold out last season...
...saying he represented a certain group of prisoners and refused to give me their names, he would be treated the same way." The court, Button argued, was inviting "a deluge of lawsuits involving the manner in which prisoners are treated and confined in prisons throughout this judicial circuit...