Word: eras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britons, Covent Garden shimmers with memories of empire and artistry in opera's most florid era, when Victoria's passion for singers helped make London the goal of every topflight musician. Its history goes back even farther, to two Covent Gardens before it. In 1732 Actor John Rich, who had rented the site, a convent-garden, built a prose theater (its star playwrights: Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Sheridan). After a devastating fire, the theater was rebuilt in 1809, later named the Royal Italian Opera House. It featured not only opera but all-night masked balls whose patrons, wrote...
Murphy Waits. On a few facts the Ernst report, co-signed by ex-New York State Supreme Court Justice William Munson, saw eye-to-eye with a long-established story. On the evening of March 12, when Author (The Era of Trujillo) Galindez waved goodbye to a student in front of a New York subway entrance and then vanished, Gerry Murphy, a onetime Eagle Scout from Eugene, Ore., was waiting at out-of-the-way Zahns Airport near Amityville, L.I., his rented twin-engined Beechcraft D18 outfitted with extra gas tanks and ready to go. Ernst checked out Murphy...
...this era of $100,000 bonuses for hot-shot high school kids who often end up in the bushes, the $4,000 paid to Bill Mazeroski for signing his contract seems more and more the best bargain Branch Rickey ever made. "Pound for dollar," says Pittsburgh Baseball Announcer Bob Prince in the lingo of the press box, "Mazeroski is far and away the most valuable chattel in the Pirate empire...
What worries Galbraith is "the myth that production is the central problem of our lives." This concept of social efficiency, says Galbraith. originated in the days of Adam Smith in an era of scarcity. The classic economists have repeated it; the public has echoed them. Now it is obsolete: the present-day economy not only turns out all the goods needed but spends much of its energy whetting the consumers' appetites for things they do not need. The consequence of this lack of "social balance" is that production, largely in private hands, has far outdistanced services, which Galbraith seems...
...what can be done to rekindle the desire? "The answer is not simple," said Brower, "because the mediocrity of salesmanship is only part of our pattern of being willing to settle for something less than the best. For this, in America, is the high tide of mediocrity, the great era of the goof-off. The land has been enjoying a stampede away from responsibility...