Word: ets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week electoral colleges, formed according to Nationalist Premier Johannes Strydom's tricky new rules (TIME, May 23 et seq.), met to pack the country's Upper House and create the two-thirds majority that he needs to expunge from the constitution the hateful clause that for 45 years has guaranteed voting rights to 50,000 mixed-blood citizens. In Pretoria a handful of black-sashed members of the Women's Defense of the Constitution League took up their stations of mute protest outside the old brownstone Raad-saal where Premier Strydom staged his show. Inside, opposition...
...Hoffmann, first produced in 1881, four months after Offenbach's death, was a smash. The French, who wisely distrust overly sweet wines, have always had a weakness for sweet opera, and much of Hoffmann fits into the sucre fashion of Gounod's Faust, Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila, etc. When it tries to get serious, it often just turns watery. But the score, if well played, always bubbles with its own kind of wit and Gallic lyricism...
...leader of last week's revolt. In recent months War Minister Lott had emerged as the army's sturdiest opponent of the faction called golpistas-the military and civilian leaders who favor a golpe (coup) to keep middle-roading President-elect Juscelino Kubitschek (TIME, Oct. 17 et ante) from taking office next January...
...Eddie Constantine's latest record is L'Homme et I'Enfant, in which he sings sentimental answers to a little girl's childish questions-the little girl being his eleven-year-old daughter Tania. Translation...
...share of the nation's concert business between them. They are: Columbia Artists Management, Inc., among whose contract stars are Soprano Lily Pons, Pianist Rudolf Serkin, Violinist Jascha Heifetz; and National Concerts and Artists Corp., which books Violinist Nathan Milstein, Pianist Alexander Brailowsky, Baritone Robert Merrill, et al. The agencies' power lies in their subsidiaries-Columbia's Community Concerts, and National's Civic Concert Service-which between them have organized local civic associations in some 1,200 communities in 48 states. These groups act as local sponsors for the big agency artists, thus providing a huge...