Word: fiascoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your report of the "fiasco" of The Rake's Progress in its second season at the Metropolitan Opera [TIME, Feb. 8] underlines a circumstance that has long been obvious: Met audiences are not responsive to novelty, good or bad . . . The audiences, for the most part, prefer to listen to Carmen or Traviata for the hundred-and-umpteenth time. Or do they actually listen, even to their favorites? Isn't it rather a matter of going to the opera house to be pleasurably stroked, as it were, by a succession of familiar sounds...
...were 7,000,000 Austrians. Their hopes of a treaty had been highest. For a year, Austrian Chancellor Julius Raab had been dickering with the Russians behind the allies' back, offering to neutralize Austria in return for the evacuation of the Red army. Now Raab was humiliated. The fiasco at Berlin had moved his countrymen like few events in their national experience. People's Party newspapers appeared with black bands of mourning. The Socialists, who opposed Raab's playing footsie with the Communists, would not let him forget...
This is an illustration of the fact that despite the pressures of an undeclared war with Russia, the fundamental sense of justice of the American people can still make itself felt to prevent wholesale informing. The Norwalk fiasco should be a lesson to well-meaning groups that there are limits to subversive hunting. It should also prove to the people who fear America is moving toward Fascism that they are overstating the case. 1984 is still a long...
...gave its sixth performance (in two years) of the only contemporary composition in its repertory, Igor Stravinsky's Rake's Progress, which has cost the Met more than 60,000 hard-won dollars to mount. Reported Critic Olin Downes of the Times: "The opera suffered the worst fiasco that we have seen occur at the Metropolitan in 30 years of attendance there." Only a slim crowd turned up in the first place, and "by the end of the second act, people were leaving in scores ... It is clear that the public has tired of this opera...
Gathering dust in some Capitol Hill pigeon hole is a bill that could have prevented the Harry Dexter white fiasco, and saved the present Administration much embarrassment. Written by New York Representative Jacob Javitts, the bill would establish uniform rules for conducting investigations...