Word: gateway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bobsledder and sings in a Dennis Day tenor, was educated at the Great Books college, St. John's in Annapolis. The two met in the folksinging circles of small New York nightclubs. Gottlieb, who had helped pay his graduate school expenses as one of San Francisco's Gateway Singers, heard them on the West Coast in 1959 and suggested that they form a trio...
...mural is, says Benton, whose eyes are tiring, his last major project. The crowded historical pageant, called Independence and the Opening of the West, shows Indians, hunters trappers, French explorers, settlers and adventurers-the men, says Benton, who gradually "changed Independence from a quiet backwoods settlement to the gateway of destiny...
...Gateway. Frustrated in the Arab and Moslem worlds, Nasser has turned his propaganda and subversion techniques on Africa, which he considers rightly his to lead, since, he says, Egypt "guards the northern gateway." But he has attracted to his doubtful banner chiefly the fanatics, crackpots and dissidents. In a ramshackle, flaking mansion in the Cairo suburb of Zamalek, a dozen African "political exiles" compile tracts denouncing the imperialists and pro-Western nationalists, broadcast regularly on "The Voice of Free Africa." The U.A.R. has set up "cultural centers" in Somalia, the Sudan and Ghana, and it has become fashionable for prosperous...
Cause for Apprehension. Deploring the boundless energy of Kennedy's task forces ("They have been burning the midnight oil thinking up things for the Kennedy Administration to do"), the Cleveland Plain Dealer suggested darkly: "It remains to be seen whether the gateway to the New Frontier will lead to a Paradise for Planners or the rocky road of hard work and self-sacrifice." In Chicago, the Tribune scanned the economic survey prepared for Kennedy by Paul Samuelson, Walter Heller and other economists, and concluded that the New Frontier might become a retreat to the wartime "regimented economy" of Franklin...
...impressive share of the breed -some 500 new operas a year. Each year the best of the current Italian operatic product goes on display at a remarkable opera festival-the Teatro delle Novita, winding up its 17th season in the Alpine hill town of Bergamo, and known as the "gateway to La Scala...