Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contrast, spectacle abounds in Princess Ida, the spring opera offering of the Gilbert and Sullivan Players. Aside from the Hasty Pudding musical, the opera has the largest budget of any student production, and the shows usually show it. Topnotch voices are frequently displayed as well...
...Foley, who died in 1977. The final selections were made by Solotaroff. It is an outstanding collection with at least two stories that continue to reverberate: Leslie Epstein's Skaters on Wood, a startling tale about Polish Jews staging Macbeth before being rounded up by the Nazis; and Gilbert Sorrentino's Decades, a piece of superbly controlled drollery about a blue-collar New Yorker on the fringes of literary culture...
City Opera has done well by Argento. Set Designer John Conklin's haunted house is properly spooky, and the opera's shifts in time and mood are made decisive by Gilbert Hemsley's lighting. Conductor Julius Rudel kept things going so smoothly one almost forgot that this was a world premiere, the first time for everyone. For Rita Shane there can be only praise. Her acting was fiery, her singing confident, if uneven. It is hard to think of anyone, including Sills, who could have truly commanded the part. Miss Havisham's Fire burns a long...
...used for research, although Geoffrey P. Pollitt, director of the Bio Labs, said yesterday that such funding is "unusual." University records show only three instances of private funding for research, one from UpJohn Corporation, one from Biogen, who is helping to pay for the insulin experiments of Walter F. Gilbert '53, American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology, and one from the Campbell Soup Corporation, which sponsored mushroom research earlier this decade...
Sometimes works of art are reported stolen to order for connoisseurs. But experts at the Delaware conference said that art thieves usually are not specialists. Rather, they are the same sort of criminals who steal automobiles, TV sets and jewelry. "Let me dispel some myths," said Gilbert Raguideau, a French government expert on the subject. "There is no mastermind, no international art Mafia. We all have heard the legend of the mad, rich connoisseur who buys stolen masterworks. He does not exist." The works are sold to frequently unsuspecting collectors in the U.S. and abroad through dealers who care more...