Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political comparison is not so farfetched. The hope that De Gaulle has held out to war-weary Algeria in his "Constantine Plan" (TIME, Oct. 13) depends on his assurances to the poor Moslem population that they have a prosperous future to share in economic and political equality with Metropolitan Frenchmen. Without the wealth of the Sahara-and the power it could furnish Algeria-the Constantine Plan would be an intolerable financial burden on France, and an unredeemable promise. Says Jacques Soustelle: "It is here in this desert region that the destiny of the French Republic will be settled...
What all this will mean to the French economy was spelled out not long ago by Jacques Soustelle. Said he: "Metropolitan France now consumes more than 20 million tons of oil a year. This was the basic factor that for years brought our trade balance into the red. When in five or six years consumption reaches the 36 million-ton level, we will be able to pump between 30 and 50 million tons out of the Sahara...
Forest wanted to avoid the operas that the Metropolitan or New York City operas present, and to concentrate instead on "brand-new works or very, very old ones." He hired young singing talent, backed it up with topflight coaches and conductors, among them, Eduard van Reinum, Leopold Stokowski, Igor Markevitch. Although the festival, summer after summer, earned more than its share of critical huzzahs, it attracted only moderate crowds, had to be abandoned altogether last summer, when the festival tent was wrecked in a tearing summer squall during the American premiere of Murder in the Cathedral...
...Durgin, drama and music critic of the Boston Globe, printed in last Sunday's newspaper. I was shocked to find a person of your eminence unleashing such an ill-timed and sloppily thought-out barrage against the Cambridge Drama Festival's tenancy this summer of the new, State-constructed Metropolitan Boston Arts Center (MeBAC); and I was surprised to see Mr. Durgin rising to your bait...
...claim that the Metropolitan District Commission has granted the C.D.F. "exclusive use ... of the new Art Center Theatre for the next several years and possibly long thereafter." This is mere conjecture on your part. The M.D.C. has not made any long-range commitments for the Theatre's use; so why do you want to stir up trouble before any has arisen...