Word: europeanizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Three of the operatic world. The Met is hampered by a physical plant that was antiquated in 1910 (to be abandoned in three years for the Met's new home in Lincoln Center) and by the difficulties of competing for top talent with the state-supported European houses. But in addition to its European stars, it can rely on a fine supply of home-grown talent, enormous, well-earned prestige, and a manager with a sense of humor. Last week Manager Bing heard that one of the speakers scheduled for the anniversary program planned to invoke a comparison with...
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. A brilliantly written novel, lyrical, hilarious and horrifying, about a middle-aging emigre's love for a "nymphet," with highly ironic variations on the theme of American innocence and European corruption...
...trooped the symphony's 107 members, garbed not in the familiar spikey ties and rumpled tails, but in a Bernstein brainstorm: work clothes of off black trousers and matching tropical jackets with bandmasters' collars and white cuff piping, based vaguely on the rehearsal coats of old-line European conductors. Reaction: mixed, so far. Murmured one Philharmonic player to another: "You look like a bellhop at the Astor...
...fact that under Pius 33 saints were canonized,*more than under any other Pope in this century. Its political success can be judged from the fact that, during Pius' reign, Christian Democratic parties and Catholie statesmen (De Gasperi, Adenauer, Schuman, Fanfani et al.) rose to power in Western European countries where only a few years ago anticlericalism was a major prerequisite for political success...
...change was caused partly by the very disasters that struck the world during Pacelli's lifetime, for they branded into men of all faiths a new need for direction and values beyond materialist optimism. Partly it was caused by the death of the old European order, which forced the Vatican to deal not with monarchs or heads of state but with the people, and to find new ways of reaching them. Above all, it was caused by Pius XII's insistence that the papacy had a mission to assert Christian truths about all phases of human life...