Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hundreds of Coloreds, and wherever they discovered enough "native blood" or "native associations," freely rescinding their privileges. The cross-examining was centered on the 30,000 Coloreds who have moved from Cape Province, their traditional home, to the hustling metropolis of Johannesburg (pop. 800,000). Their migration does not fit in with the Strydom government's apartheid (segregation) plans...
...research that has gone into Amerigo may help clear its hero's name, though it does not answer the question at the head of the publisher's blurb: "What sort of man was Amerigo Vespucci?" So little is known for sure about him that it could easily fit into a tightly written essay. Author Arciniegas pads out his book with heavily-written filler about Florence and Spain, never comes close to presenting a talking, walking Amerigo...
...surprising power of the average Italian chorister to destroy all stage illusion the moment he shambles on the scene with his blue jaws, his reach-me-down costume ... his embarrassed eye on the prompter, and his general air of being in an opera chorus because he is fit for nothing better." Unnerving frankness is the keynote of most of the reviews' opening lines, e.g., "For some time past I have been carefully dodging Dr. Hubert Parry's Job"; the closing lines are marked by a note of extreme sorrow: " He might have let Job alone . . . for, patient...
...death. With their productions of all of Wagner's major works unveiled in previous seasons, the producers this time tried their hand at the youthful but never completely successful Flying Dutchman - with little bet ter luck than others have had. Somehow, the old seafaring legend failed to fit in with the stark, abstract staging technique that has been brilliantly successful with other Wagner operas. Musically, Bayreuth's Dutchman was superior. Listeners were especially pleased with the Metropolitan Opera's statuesque Soprano Astrid Varnay as Senta. Most popular opera of Bayreuth's season thus far: Tannhduser, with...
Field Work. In El Centro, Calif., arrested "on suspicion of impersonating an officer," Joseph McKinney, 18, blandly explained why he had flashed a tin badge in several bars and closed two that "were not fit to drink in": he was enrolled in a "course in how to be an investigator, and was just practicing...