Word: elements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...musty, 17th century palazzo. There he is hard at work on a gigantic, twelve-tone grand opera to be based on Joyce's Ulysses. The trouble with modern opera, says Dallapiccola, is that composers "seem to have come to a mutual agreement to eliminate the love element which has delighted audiences for a century. The love duet was axed, and it would now be appropriate to introduce a new term, the 'hate duet.' The new operatic hero is the man without love who is hopelessly alone." In his Ulysses, Composer Dallapiccola hopes to come to terms with...
...Dana Reed Prize Committee, the ex-Albumers had also to evolve some scheme for the formal administration of their award. Characteristically, they agreed to a plan whose basic element was relaxed informality. "We wanted to increase the prestige value of the award," said Kaufmann. "The best idea we could think of was to invite three different guest judges each year. Asking each judge to serve only once--and on a purely voluntary basis, of course--we could impose on people of higher rank, so to speak...
...seriousness. The stage was always full of actors in motion--slick, sometimes funny, and always pointless motion. It was a desperate attempt to breathe some life into the production, but all the energy seemed somehow irrelevant. Unfortunately, even the slapstick often lost effect because it lacked the one vital element of slapstick--timing. The actors achieved varying degrees of mediocrity, and the set, by Donald Soule, seemed sturdy...
Lanky, roughhewn Glenn Seaborg has more qualifications for running the AEC than mere desire. He is a top-rank nuclear scientist. He was a co-discoverer of the element plutonium, crucial in the development of the atom bomb. That achievement won him a 1951 Nobel Prize. His work in the laboratory has been continuously fruitful. Asked what he does, he answers with calculated simplicity: "I discover elements." To date he has been instrumental in adding nine more to the periodic table...
...cannot always avoid the kind of slips that marred almost every Eisenhower conference. With millions of people looking on, there is no time for the hasty Hagerty correction before the mistake has had its effect. The news conference is a particularly ill-designed instrument to serve as a major element in Presidential policy and the Presidential image...