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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rigoletto, despite some of the most grippingly grisly melodrama in grand opera, is distinctly dated. Whenever Gilda has a spare moment, the orchestra lapses into a kind of soft-shoe accompaniment, leaving wide-open spaces for her graceful vocal glides and glitters. Soprano Dobbs sounded smooth as cashmere beside the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Met's New Coloratura | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

Some readers may feel that the CRIMSON is a meany for withholding this letter, which was dated October 31. On the other hand, it effectively demonstrates that prudence is virtue and science is bunk, and that two sophomores have keen interest in our several grid classics.--Ed.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PLEA FOR SYMMETRY | 11/13/1956 | See Source »

The BMOC. Graduating as salutatorian of his class, he argued against Gene's suggestion that he work his way through Georgia Tech. Herman got his own way: studying law at the University of Georgia as his father had done. With a car and more spending money than the average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: The Red Galluses | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

To survey the accomplishments of artists with such commonplace subject matter (called by the French nature morte, by the Spaniards bodegones, which means "low-class restaurant or taproom"), the Milwaukee Art Institute and the Cincinnati Art Museum have teamed up to assemble an ambitious selection ot paintings covering 500 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: KITCHEN TABLE ART | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

"The Shortest Distance." Wolfe's preoccupations in the letters are often dated -the stock-market crash, Naziism-and sometimes remarkably contemporary. He anticipated, for instance, the notion of the "other-directed" man-but with more affection for America than is usually shown by sociologists. In 1937 Wolfe argued that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Letters from Leviathan | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

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