Word: closed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clear hit of the evening was Berg's difficult twelve-tone piece, last played in Manhattan ten years ago. Moved by the death of the 18-year-old daughter of a close friend, Composer Berg interrupted work on his opera Lulu to write the concerto in the summer of 1935, died before he could hear it performed. A tenderly elegiac work, it spreads a filigreed web of wispy lyric phrases, works up to a climax drawn from a phrase of a Lutheran hymn (Es ist genug), ends with the violin soaring softly above the fading orchestra. Last week...
Vandiver's actions should speak softer than his words. He can close Atlanta's schools for breaking the state segregation law, but Atlantans furnish 30% of the state's entire tax revenue, and they would scarcely relish paying to educate other Georgia children while their own are barred from school. If one Atlantan proved in federal court that he was being deprived of equal protection under the law, the U.S. could order the city's schools reopened-or all Georgia schools closed down. This might even move the state legislature to give Atlanta local option. Atlantans...
...monsters from Paolozzi's studio bring close to $10,000, and the august British Council has picked 30 of his works as Britain's only sculpture entry in next year's Venice Biennale. They represent man scrambled, irrevocably...
...frantically flicking from the Colts-Forty-Niners game on CBS to NBC, where undefeated Syracuse, intent on disproving the taunt that it had played only so-so opposition, was busy wrecking a U.C.L.A. team that had upended high ranking Southern California two weeks earlier. The game was never even close. Syracuse's "Sizable Seven" linemen (average weight: 216 lbs.) scornfully brushed aside U.C.L.A.'s specially designed trap plays, held U.C.L.A.'s offense to a humiliating minus 13 yds. on the ground. Led by German-born Team Captain Gerhard Schwedes, a slashing right halfback, Syracuse rolled up touchdowns...
...grow through 1965 at a rate of 6% a year. Thus, even if the U.S. G.N.P. increase rises to "our best postwar rate" of 3½% to 4%, Dulles predicted that by 1970 Russia's output will be 55% of the U.S.'s. The industrial gap may close even faster, says Dulles, since the Russians are expanding their industrial sector 8% or 9% a year, thus should attain 60% of U.S. industrial production by 1970 even if the U.S. industrial growth rate steps...