Word: fixedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ory was of great historical importance, for it fixed the French light opera style for a hundred years. It was the chief stylistic source for the Offenbach comic operas, as well as for the Gilbert & Sullivan ones. But Goldovsky has proven to anyone's satisfaction that it is more than...
Was democracy dead in Pakistan? "Of course not. Any country which does not have a Communist dictatorship has some form of democracy." What will happen to all the politicians thrown out of office by his coup? ''They should pray a little bit now and ask forgiveness from God...
Grime Bomb. In Denver. Dr. James L. Tuck, thermonuclear research chief at Los Alamos. N. Mex.. caused much speculation by keeping an oddly bulging briefcase always at his side during a conference, later revealed that it contained part of his wife's vacuum cleaner, which she had asked...
WHERE is Santa Fe?" said the Metropolitan Opera's Rudolf Bing (TIME, Oct. 13), thereby touching off a major brouhaha in New Mexico and other music-minded states that disagree with Bing's assertion that there is little American opera of importance outside New York. This week, with...
From the Charleston area, Dr. Dale Groom reported, the hearts studied showed twice as much atherosclerosis (the form of arteriosclerosis that affects the coronary arteries) as did the hearts collected in Haiti by Dr. Vergniaud Péan. Why? Their diets did not differ significantly except in two respects: the...