Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Verdict. In Los Angeles, George Leingang was convicted of grand theft and fined $1,000 for selling "worthless oil land," four years later made a $1,000,000 strike...
Another Lunch. Melchior was not the only one prepared to rescue grand opera. In Manhattan, bustling little Showman Billy Rose, who jazzed-up Bizet in Carmen Jones, got front-page publicity with a proposal that wasn't as bumptious as it at first sounded. Five years ago, Billy had lunched with some Met board members, and made what Board Chairman George A. Sloan now gingerly refers to as "a number of helpful observations which were conveyed to our . . . management." Now Billy was again ready to be the Met's little helper...
...handcuffs," and do some streamlining, he would personally foot any losses for the year (obviously he didn't think there would be any). Billy would "introduce modern lighting, staging, choreography and certain other elements of present-day stagecraft . . . without tampering with what is fine and traditionally right about grand opera." He also thought he could "fire and enthuse the staff into doing a more exciting job"-and the Met could certainly use a little of that. Chairman Sloan's reply was respectful as could be: he wanted to have another lunch with Billy "so that we may have...
...little more accessible. In calling off the season the week before, Sloan had cut off any further talk with the unions that he blamed for the shutdown (TIME, Aug. 16). Last week, he and six other board members huddled all one afternoon with the union representatives in a Grand Tier-floor room at the Met. When the meeting broke up, one union leader told reporters: "After all, we all left the meeting together, and nobody had any black eyes...
...precisely when things seemed worst, people began to pull themselves together. Tarrou organized a group of volunteers to combat the plague. Rambert, on the eve of his escape, chose to remain and fight; he had learned that in such times "it may be shameful to be happy by oneself." Grand abandoned his perfect sentence and Father Paneloux his religious fatalism. It was not a question of heroism; people hardly had enough freedom of choice to be heroic. They simply decided to do what they could, even if their resistance was absurd. And perhaps, suggests Camus, to continue upholding...