Word: fining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enjoyably folksy songs and dances are the best part of an evening that is, after never less than indifferent, and somehow never dull. Rumor has it that a new ballet will be inserted, and this sounds like a fine idea. If enough desultory backchat is cut out to make room for it, if director Vincent J. Donehue can do something about several performances, if the lyrics to more of the songs become audible, if a great deal of miscellaneous tinkering is successfully accomplished, Juno might be okay...
...Peter Orlovsky." said Peter Orlovsky. "I'm very fine and happy and crazy as a wild flower...
...Ladies. Based upon the Wolfenden Report published 18 months ago (TIME, Sept. 16, 1957), Butler's 600-word bill covers prostitutes and the pimps who live on their earnings, has nothing to say about the other subject raised by Wolfenden: the prevalence of homosexuality. The maximum ?2 ($5.60) fine for prostitution, which has been on the books since 1840, would now be increased to ?25 and three months in jail, and no longer would a cop have to prove that the girls were "annoying" anyone...
...Metropolitan Opera was still clearly enemy territory, but flashy, highstrung Diva Maria Callas found somewhere to sing in Manhattan anyway. Delighted to have Maria under its wing, the imaginative American Opera Society, which specializes in concert versions of rare items, agreed to bring forth at Carnegie Hall a fine old showcase for her fiery talents (Bellini's Il Pirata), allowed Maria to bring along her own conductor, tenor, baritone. Success was assured. The stiff prices ($33 top) fazed few of her fans, who applauded the Callasthenics lustily, ahed her mad scene, stopped cheering only when a stagehand doused...
...headlines about Cuba began to recede from the front pages last week, they left many a second-day thought in U.S. city rooms and editorial offices. How well did the U.S. press cover the revolution in Cuba? While there were some examples of fine reporting as well as cases of sheer irresponsibility, the answer that most newsmen reluctantly reached about the overall performance was: Not very good...