Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Christie, Bing found the incarnation of an opera producer's dream - an "art patron who pays, but does not interfere. Not that he simply bought and paid for productions. It was really the Christies who gave the whole thing its tone, and gathered together the people who could appreciate it." In Glyndebourne's six-week season, usually only one or two operas were given in the little 600-seat theater, and Ebert demanded (and Christie paid for) enough rehearsal time to insure that the operas were done to a turn...
...favorite dream project of mathematical thinkers is a chess-playing machine. None has been built that will play a full game without human help, but the development of monster electronic computers offers hope that they can be "programmed" (instructed) to match the best moves of a skillful human chess player...
Hollywood Star Playhouse (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS). Joan Bennett in Dream...
...characters seems to have escaped from the rolls of an old jungle thriller: a gigantic U.S. Negro, wanted for murder, who has found a dignified life in a country where his color is no handicap; an old white adventurer who has gone native but still clings to his dream of El Dorado; the big-company man of purpose; the noble young savage...
...Hindu custom), the funeral which focused all India's eyes on Bombay last week was worthy of a prince -a fact which would have pleased tough, bull-necked Sardar Patel. The son of a farmer, Patel was 35 before he was able to afford to fulfill his dream of studying law at London's Middle Temple. And though he quickly won a reputation as a formidable criminal lawyer, it was only after Patel joined Gandhi's movement in 1916 that he discovered his true talent-politics...