Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly a decade, those two warring soprano queens, Maria Meneghini Callas and Renata Tebaldi, have dominated the world of European (and U.S.) opera, leaving other postwar singers to peep about to find themselves honorable mention. But slowly, and largely unnoticed in the U.S., old Europe has fashioned a new crop of talented women singers. If none yet quite equals Callas, Tebaldi or the retired lioness of Wagnerian opera, Kirsten Flagstad, all have developed personal styles that promise fresh views of the operatic literature. Among the best of the new divas...
...contemporary American shows are on tour-one in Europe and another in the Far East. Last week the European exhibition was touring Germany, after opening in Copenhagen; it will go on to London and Paris. The Asian edition was touring Japan, after opening in Seoul; it will go on to Manila and Wellington, N.Z. Both shows consist of varied works of four Pacific Northwest painters (Mark Tobey...
Fair indexes of the quality of the paintings are two canvases from the European exhibit-Tobey's placid, cotton-soft Fountains of Europe and Callahan's turbulent, semi-semi-objective Fiery Night (see color page). The sculpture is no less recherche. Not untypical are Lipton's exotic Night Bloom, with its nickel-silver-on-steel petals closing with tropical luxuriance, and Hare's abstract bronze. Bush of Elephants, with its distorted suggestion of tusks and elephants' ears...
...general Orientalism and mysticism of the Northwest painters were thought likely to be received sympathetically in the Far East. Aimed at letting the elite of Europe and Asia know the kind of art being produced in the U.S., the shows fortunately are accompanied by curators (Callahan is with the European exhibition) who can make explanations to at least a certain number of puzzled art-lovers...
...Though nickel is still in short supply and will be for many years, the free world's production is slowly edging up, reached 450 million Ibs. last year v. 1955's 427 million Ibs., and is expected to top 600 million Ibs. by 1960. The price of European and Japanese nickel, which U.S. firms have been forced to buy at up to $2.60 per lb., has dropped to about $1.05 v. Inco's U.S. and Canadian price of 74? per lb. In fact, with defense demands taking less of the nickel supply, the U.S. is now diverting...