Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Manhattan the Metropolitan Opera Co., while enjoying a boom season, passed the hat for $300,000 "to keep the institution going." Reasons: the Met's profitable out-of-town tours had been curtailed by the war; there was a $145,000 tax bill on the Opera House. The...
In Chicago the managers of the late Sam Insull's Chicago Opera House tried to sell 50,000 books of tickets at $10 apiece to "insure Chicago the finest opera in the world." The plan was to produce eight weeks of home-grown opera, which (according to the Chicago...
If Notre Dame did not want him, Chicago did. The pain of being ousted from a Catholic institution was alleviated last week for lame, earnest Catholic Philosopher Francis Elmer McMahon (TIME, Nov. 22): the fighting Irishman who had attacked Dictator Francisco Franco and praised Russia's war record landed...
Four of these men, when asked for their opinions on the institution they had entered recently, gave it their hearty endorsement. Knight disagreed with the widely held belief that it is a revolting tribal custom. He said it deserved nothing but praise, had made him a better man.
Meantime, the shrewd, energetic woman realized that she was shaping a fine commercial asset in wax. In 1802 she got to England with many of her images intact, put them on exhibition. She added more, taught her children how to model and how to manage. Her venture was plagued by...