Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black ghetto, with "white liberals" as allies, must organize in order to assure progress, Saul D. Alinsky, founder and executive director of the Industrial Areas Foundation, said last night...
Sneaky Monk. When City Opera General Director Julius Rudel asked Corsaro to stage Faust, he got a wild-eyed stare in return. "I loathed Faust," Corsaro admits. "In fact, I've started off by basically disliking every opera that I've done so far. They all seemed like such old salami." But as he began thinking about it, he became fascinated with the prospect of doing Faust as a grim Gothic tale in which sheer horror and grizzly humor intertwine. He decided to introduce Mephistopheles in different guises that would fit credibly into each scene. After materializing first...
...Instead, Marguerite gains redemption by accepting the last rites from a priest just before the noose is placed over her head. It gives the ending a biting irony that fits in perfectly with Corsaro's overall concept, and most of those present agreed with Soprano Sills that the director had justified his radical ideas. Said Sills: "If you can convince someone that an old chestnut like Faust is real drama then that's living theater...
...Debts. Giro is the most advanced, fastest-working variant of a system that has been working on the Continent for a long time. It is also the latest effort in the British post office's drive to turn the venerable institution into an aggressive, profit-making enterprise. Giro Director John Grady hopes to pay for operating costs and also make a neat profit by investing the pool of money created by Giro's constant flow of deposits. He expects that the new service will attract about 1,500,000 customers and $450 million in deposits within a year...
Thanks to De Gaulle. A prime factor in the resurgence has been the government's decision to build up defense industries in order to spend more of the military budget inside Israel's own borders. Says Moshe Kashti, Director General of the Defense Ministry and author of the plowshares-into-swords program: "We were buying planes in France and making shirts at home. It seemed logical to make the planes at home and buy the shirts in France...