Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard first proposed the project in the Spring of 1965, when it estimated the cost at about $2 million. A Boston Engineering firm did detailed work on the plans that summer and revised the estimate upwards to $2.8 million. It remained there until this summer when the University asked for bids...
...Firm Ship. This alone, however, does not necessarily signify a blossoming of new works for the operatic stage, the few Barbers and Brittens notwithstanding. Few composers today find much encouragement to write opera. Some feel that the Met is not providing the impetus that it should in this direction, but that is one subject on which Bing cannot be moved. The Met's job, he says, is like that of a museum, "to put old masterpieces in new frames." He is convinced that opera can survive on its classical foundation without a strong infusion of contemporary music and subject...
...tantrums of his singers, the sour notes from his musicians, all fail to stir even a hemidemisemiquaver of irritation in his aplomb. Among the scores of appropriate quotations from operas that he uses for punctuation, Rudolf Bing likes best the line from the Flying Dutchman: "My ship is firm; it suffers no damage...
Determined to change all that, Morse landed five of the seven Yale law graduates from this year's class who decided to go into teaching. Three of the graduates even turned down job offers from a top Manhattan firm. "It's like the Peace Corps, except we're given much more responsibility," says Frederick B. McLane. "This is becoming the one institution in this state that is generating interest and excitement-we want to be a part of it," adds his colleague Michael B. Trister...
Leven, a sixth-generation member of a family prominent in Paris business, negotiated patiently for eight years to acquire Vichy. A controlling 43.8% interest in Vichy is held by a beer firm called Brasseries et Glacières de 1'Indochine (BGI). Perrier in turn owns 33% of BGI. The swap that Leven finally arranged was to give BGI its 33% and in return take the controlling interest in Vichy. Perrier has acquired another 10% of Vichy shares from other stockholders. Perrier will not only bottle the water from the twelve mineral springs in the town of Vichy...