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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They had two children,* wrote and made their living as free-lance journalists and translators. Muñoz contributed to the New Republic, the Nation, the Baltimore Sun and Henry L. Mencken's Smart Set and American Mercury. Of his poetry Muñoz now says: "It stinks...
...industries Puerto Rico now offers tax exemption for twelve years. Even dividends are tax-free if collected in the island, for Puerto Ricans pay no federal income tax. Other PRIDC selling points are the island's abundant labor supply and the fact that wages tend to be lower than the 30?-an-hour minimum in the U.S. To supply skilled workers, the government has built an industrial school equipped to train 3,500 workers at a time in 55 different trades...
General Manager Edward Johnson of the Metropolitan Opera, pressed by Atlanta reporters to name his successor after he retires next year, obliged with a list that included Lawrence Tibbett, Lauritz Melchior and Billy Rose, who loves to give widely syndicated free advice...
After a classical Swan Lake and the sprightly Fancy Free, they got the main course: Agnes de Mille's Fall River Legend, with Nora Kaye, the big-eyed little ballerina who has made Fall River one of Ballet Theatre's signatures as well as one of her own. She spun through the story of the gentle, murderous New England spinster ("Lizzie Borden took an ax . . .") like something out of a Freudian nightmare, and her audience loved...
...says Author Niebuhr, was that there was no such thing. Like the endless cycles of nature, the projects and enterprises of men and nations were thought to flourish and die again & again in an eternal circle of recurrences. Man's only hope, Plato taught, was to free his spirit from imprisonment in the living death of the bodily world. When the Biblical-Christian conception of history replaced this classical view, says Niebuhr, "the dynamism of Western culture was made possible." Christian teaching viewed and still views history as a meaningful interplay of God's purpose...