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...opera citadel, the Metropolitan. For one thing he had his fling at the Met before Broadway. His first opera, Amelia Goes to the Ball, composed when he was 25, was played for two seasons (seven performances) by the Met, and his third, The Island God, a flop, had four performances. He recalls the Met's productions with distaste: "For The Island God they dragged on some rocks that looked like the third act of Die Walkure." The Met's huge stage, ceremonial trappings and big voices demand a grander canvas than Menotti now chooses to paint his tight...
...mechanical clock. Ever since 1943, when he became president of lively little (enrollment: 800) Mills College (for women) in Oakland, Calif., he has also been something of a maverick in the world of higher education. So far as women are concerned, says he, higher education is a flop. Last week, in a new book called Educating Our Daughters (Harper; $2.50), he told...
Back to the Sunsets. The flop was loud and emphatic. When the show he called the "Manhattan Pee-rade" decided to continue without him, Arthur says his final chance on a Chesterfield show "laid a terrible...
...Reconstruction Finance Corp. finally decided that its grandiose venture into prefabricated housing was a dismal flop. It began foreclosure proceedings against Lustron Corp., after sinking $37.5 million of public funds into Lustron's scheme to produce low-cost enameled-steel dwellings on an assembly line. Lustron actually produced only 2,200 houses, repaid not a cent in interest or principal on RFC's loan. By foreclosing, RFC admitted, it could not hope to recoup much more than 5? on the dollar...
...intellectual vibrations. Liz was a prodigious worker who was seldom paid for her effort. For a time, she was William Ellery Channing's secretary, but the great preacher apparently never thought to pay her except in inspiration. The Dial, which she published and Emerson edited, was a financial flop. Her Boston bookstore was for years the meeting place of the literary greats of the day, but book sales were most discouraging...