Word: director
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cultural Backwater. Much of the credit for Rake's success goes to its director, tiny (5 ft. 2 in.) Paul Callaway, 49, organist and choirmaster at Washington Cathedral (Protestant Episcopal), who organized the Opera Society in 1956. In a city that has long been known as a cultural backwater, the company was financed by contributions averaging $100, plus some sizable gifts from Washington society's "cave dwellers," including Mrs. Herbert May (formerly Mrs. Merriweather Post), Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss...
Deciding from the start to limit the repertory to rarely heard operas performed in their original language. Director Callaway set such a high standard with last year's staging of Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos that one critic feared listeners would expect a triumph every time. In fact there have been many triumphs, including standout productions of Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte and Monteverdi's Orfeo. Audience response matched the performances: paid season subscriptions rose from 322 in 1957 to nearly 2,000 this season...
...John Steuart Curry-were "illustrative, storytelling and popular in content, or so intended." Cocky, hot-tempered and unruly, Tom Benton talked loud and stood proud, and his fame was solid. But as a new generation's vibrant distortions and vivid abstractions transfigured the U.S. art world, museum directors began to shuffle his canvases into cellar crypts, and his name vanished from the critics' scripts. Benton did not help his cause by denning a museum director as "a pretty boy with delicate wrists and a swing in his gait...
...Dana L. Farnsworth, Director of University Health Services, explained yesterday that the aim of the final study is "to learn as much as possible about the pyscho-social development of the college undergraduate," and that it could aid the University by pointing the way toward the development of "sound pressures for excellence...
...Faculty has set up an advisory committee for the project. The members are Dean Monro, Master Leighton, professors Stouffer and Riesman, and William G. Perry, Director of the Bureau of Study Council...