Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down Syngman Rhee by declaring U.N. martial law, placing Rhee in "protective custody" or engineering a coup d'etat to bring to power a Korean who would cooperate with...
Buffalo's coup (see above) was matched by an important art buy in another U.S. city. For 15 years, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts has been hunting for a first-class Goya. Last week the master's Self Portrait with Doctor Arrieta was hanging in the museum's place of honor (Minneapolis' prized Rembrandt, Lucretia, had been moved aside to make room for it). Goya painted the Self Portrait in 1820 at the peak of his genius, as a tribute to a man he firmly believed saved his life. In 1819 Goya was 73 years...
...which would spread over two four-hour performances), its 40 individual roles and choruses of several hundred, all proved too discouraging. But last week the Italian city of Florence put on a digested, four-hour version as the high spot of its May music festival, and as a triumphant coup over Milan's lordly La Scala...
Chief credit for both the production and the coup belonged to Veteran Conductor Artur Rodzinski. La Scala had arranged with the Soviet Ministry of Culture to produce next season a revised version of the opera (on which, the ministry said, Prokofiev had been making "technical changes"). Conductor Rodzinski, who now lives in Florence, had an idea that he could beat La Scala to the punch. He remembered that the Metropolitan Opera had once planned to produce War and Peace and that Manhattan's Leeds Music Corp. had a copy of the score...
...army, a successful military coup, while always a possibility, looks highly unlikely at the moment. In recent weeks some of Perón's bitterest enemies-students and sons of wealthy ranchers-have tried to blast loose Perón's grip by setting off 15 homemade bombs in Buenos Aires. They gave Perón a real scare; police seized 25 machine guns, 600 rifles and pistols, more than a ton of explosives. But Perón, who blamed the bombings on foreigners and evil capitalists, once more seems firmly in the saddle...