Word: fe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Most arts festivals in the U.S. are devoted to a single discipline: opera in Santa Fe, New Mexico; theater in Williamstown, Massachusetts; concerts at Ravinia, Illinois. What the country lacked, until Menotti came along, was a multidimensional festival that both took over a city and took advantage of its architecture and history. During the Menotti era, Spoleto USA benefited and suffered from his increasingly conservative and capricious tastes. There were some noteworthy premieres, such as Arthur Miller's play The American Clock, Martha Clarke's dance Miracolo d'Amore and the Philip Glass-Allen Ginsberg opera Hydrogen Jukebox...
Incongruous ensembles dot the score. A whole chorus of Portuguese townspeople interrupts an inquisition with "What a day for an autoda-fe." The cast collectively bemoans their lot with unfortunately appropriate words--"What's the use"--to the strains of Venetain-style organ grinding that would have made even Sir Arthur Sullivan shudder...
...Nobel Prize for Medicine, and in 1990 he became president of Rockefeller University, an ultra-prestigious research institution. But 18 months later, he resigned as a result of a scandal over data falsified by one of his researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Robert Sanchez, the Archbishop of Sante Fe, made our 1974 list. He was accused of having sex with several women and resigned in 1993. Of all the 250 former future leaders, however, Richard Ravitch may have achieved the greatest ignominy. He appeared on the 1974 list on account of his work as president of his family...
...small-market group was headed by Sioux Falls; Provo, Utah; Bolise, Idaho; Santa Fe, N.M., and Rapid City...
Hollis B. Chenery, the Cabot professor of economics, emeritus, died September 1 of pneumonia at his home in Santa Fe, N.M. The professor...