Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vienna's predicament was summed up last week by a local critic, who said that the opera needs a gifted director "who is tough, courageous, and does not belong to any of the Vienna cliques." In short, the kind of director that the city has been hounding out of office for nearly a century...
Divorced. Erich Leinsdorf, 56, Austrian-born music director of the Boston Symphony since 1962; and Anne Leinsdorf, his American wife; by mutual consent; after 28 years of marriage, five children; in Juarez, Mexico...
...Springfield (pop. 170,000), the loss of 2,400 jobs and $27 million in annual payrolls and other expenditures from the city's third largest industry could have been catastrophic. "The whole economy of Springfield," says Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Paul J. Greeley, "was based on George Washington's decision to build an armory here...
...plot in this Danish-Swedish film-directed by Danish Director Gabriel Axel-is a version of the ancient Romeo and Juliet conflict of love and blood. The three sons of King Hamund ride forth to avenge their father's death at the hands of neighboring King Sigvor, played by the noted Swedish actor, Gunnar Björnstrand. They are met by Sigvor's three sons. All six of them are blond and beautiful and brave; they hammer at one another all day in endless rounds of mounted combat. Then they declare the blood feud over and retire...
...story is slender: a Jewish doctor ministers illegally to a wounded fighter in the underground. But Writer-Director Zbyněk Brynych, a master of the Czech new wave, uses this somewhat shopworn situation as a structure on which to hang a number of unrelated scenes that are exceptionally powerful in both concept and execution...