Word: frem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During its last season in its storied and gloried old house, New York's Metropolitan Opera offered some superb new singers, including Italian Soprano Mirella Frem, Spanish Soprano Montserrat Caballe and Bulgarian Basso Nicolai Ghiaurov. The Met also launched its new national touring company, whose performances ranged from a fine Cinderella to a terrible Carmen. Opera companies in other cities tirelessly found out-of-the-way things to do, for instance, the Kansas City production of Handel's 241-year-old Julius Caesar and the Boston premiere of Italian Composer Luigi Nono s starkly modern Intolleranza...
...their swarming fringes over the suburban countryside? Are highways too jammed, streams too polluted? Is the world's population explosion threatening to smother India and China under a near-solid mass of humanity? Pessimists who are wrought up about such present-day conditions, says British Physicist John H. Frem-1m, have seen nothing yet. Fremlin has sturdy faith that man's ingenuity will be equal to his ever-growing need for food. But this is just the trouble. Eventually, he says, the earth will be so packed with human bodies that the heat they give off will...