Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believe it when I see it," one insider cynically commented on prospects of peace between New York's Metropolitan Opera and the musicians' unions. "Not until they actually get through a whole performance. Even then, there'll be room for doubt...
Some unspecified wrinkles about working conditions remain to be smoothed out. Flashes of temperamental lightning could still postpone or even wreck the whole proceeding. Nonetheless, both management and the artists have started trying to scrape together a new Met season, and it could get under way either...
...authoritarian conservatism. Classes consisted of dry lectures in Latin, with no chance for student participation. Seminarians had virtually no lives of their own. They could leave their residence only in groups, and could never enter a store or restaurant. They could not take secular newspapers. They could not even wear trousers; instead, the members of the more than 200 scattered residential colleges, representing 78 countries, wore colored cassocks, each color denoting a different nationality, and round, flat hats...
Beer, Blondes and Buñuel. The Second Vatican Council changed all that. Although seminarians at the Greg had been advised by their colleges not even to discuss the council while it was in progress, the meeting had its effect soon enough. First, Pope Paul VI eased out conservative Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzar-do, secretary of the Sacred Congregation on Education and ex-officio chancellor of the Gregorian. He was replaced by a liberal French prelate, Gabriel Cardinal Garrone. Then, in 1966, the Pope named Canadian-born Sociologist Herve Carrier, now 48, as rector...
...insurgents never presented the proposals coherently at the assembly. And when the chance came to nominate a candidate, they threw their support behind the unlikely choice of the National Committee of Black Churchmen: Leon Watts, 34, an articulate but little-known minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Even more unrealistic was the rebels' choice for president-the Rev. Albert B. Cleage Jr., 58, pastor of Detroit's Shrine of the Black Madonna and author of a book (The Black Messiah) that contends that Jesus was black...