Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opens, as it still conceivably could, in a month. Herbert von Karajan's new Siegfried, which must be done in November or not at all, seems likely to be scratched too. Though a handful of the Met's leading stars are still being paid full fees to keep them available, some are obviously itching to drift away and perform elsewhere. As one of them observed ominously, "A singer must sing...
...people get along without some sort of little satchel," he says. "Mine's really a medical bag," he explains. "When people ask me what's in it I say I'm a pusher." What does he carry in it, then? "I keep my money in it. And a book, in case I have to wait for someone. And the papers I'm working on. And four or five pairs of glasses. And a toothbrush and toothpaste, because you never know where you might spend the night...
Youth and Workers. By then the feisty Sheil was already showing anti-Establishment symptoms. Concerned about youth, too many of whom he had met in jail, he formed a club to keep them straight. The bishop's Catholic Youth Organization was not limited to Catholics-or to whites. Critics snickered at it as the "colored youth organization" and complained that it put too much stress on boxing tournaments. Retorted Sheil: "You can't inspire boys away from brothels and saloons with checkers tournaments...
...separate lines of promotion and seniority based on race. Nepotism, though on the wane today, has long been the principal way to gain admission to scores of union locals. Notably in craft unions, organized labor does not discriminate just against Negroes; it discriminates against almost everybody by trying to keep the labor pool lower than the number of available jobs...
...spent six years researching his subjects, yet he provides them with neither background nor a sense of their own transitional time. Director George Roy Hill abruptly annihilates the nostalgia with a scat-singing sound track by Burt Bacharach at his most cacophonous. Coupled with a mod love song, Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head-wedged in while Newman does stunts on a bicycle -the score makes the film as absurd and anachronistic as the celebrated Smothers Brothers cowboy who played the kerosene-powered guitar...