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...Metropolitan Opera season has not opened on a gaudier note since Maria Jeritza made her entrance as the stripteasing heroine of Thais in 1923. The cowgirl with the red braided hair was Soprano Leontyne Price (TIME cover, March 10), and the opera that rang up last week's curtain was La Fanciulla del West, or The Girl of the Golden West, by that old roughrider, Giacomo Puccini. Even among ardent Puccini fans, Fanciulla is often regarded as an embarrassing mistake, and the Met has not staged it in 30 years. But last week's production was more than...
...happier men watch birds, I watch men." confesses Evelyn Waugh, and in this account of two months of African travel early last year, he is as good as his word. His collector's eye for the gaudier human specimens and his ear for the strange sounds they utter are as sharp as ever. As for the prose: in the present sellers' market, no man writes English better...
...that he was listening more to the rulings of the Supreme Chairman than to the conversation of his fluent, competent colleague, Walter Cronkite. Murrow is still television's big news name; but his doom-edged, oracular school of reporting-better suited to war and disaster than to the gaudier side of U.S. politics-was rendered obsolete by the fresh wind from...
Boom & Build. The tourist trade grew faster than factories. At least 6,000,000 people now tour Arizona each year, inspire gaudier and gaudier strips of motels and roadside restaurants on roads leading out of Tucson and Phoenix. The unchallenged center of tourist trade has risen just across the irrigation ditch from the Paradise Valley area, where the early-bird millionaires first set the style for desert life and leisure. Its name: Scottsdale, which as recently as 1949 was a sleepy farm town of 1,700. It has now become the shopping center for a population of about...
...parts explicitly into the score, something they almost never did before the premiere of Stravinsky's Histoire du Soldat in 1918, and orchestras have beefed up their percussion sections to four or five men. To mount last week's concert, Price had to rent some of his gaudier noisemakers, but one favorite set of instruments he already had on hand: the eight Ford and Chevrolet brake drums that he picked up two years ago in an automobile junk yard. Still missing from the ensemble's instrument list: the jawbone...