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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discovery of a civilized and permissible attitude toward life. So he saw religion as a useful myth, not because it makes men moral, but because it civilizes them. He enjoyed mocking American. English and German Protestants for their rigid dismissal of superstition and their concern with questions of conduct. The doctrine of eternal damnation (he wrote) did not mean that man must behave himself lest he suffer torment in the afterlife, but was a poetically enlightening image which refined men's sensibility and hardened their stoicism before the intolerable truth that all human acts, all evils and all pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: GEORGE SANTAYANA: 1863-1952 | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

...queuers were hoping for standing room. Reserved seats had been gone since July. Within a few days of the announcement that Toscanini would conduct a pair of fall concerts, Festival Hall drew a flood of 60,000 requests for tickets. Since the hall could hold no more than 6,522 at the two concerts, reserved seats were parceled out by lot to every tenth applicant. The top price was raised from $1.70 to $14.70 a ticket, but music lovers hardly even blinked at the prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Toscanini Takes London | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

...Conductor Toscanini seemed to be as keen about his London visit as London was. In Milan last summer, he had heard the touring Philharmonia Orchestra for the first time, and had announced simply: "I must conduct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Toscanini Takes London | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

That will be Serafin's main job. He is also eager to take a hand in some of City Opera's new productions. He is scheduled to conduct Ravel's puckish L'Heure Espagnole last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Maestro's Return | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

...Director Gatti-Casazza as "a sensible arrangement between a man and a woman who liked and respected each other ..." Vacationing in Venice last week with her second husband, Manhattan Advertising Executive Ray Vir Den, she had a fatal stroke 36 hours before they were to hear Old Friend Toscanini conduct at La Scala...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 29, 1952 | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

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