Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Officials of the Metropolitan Boston Arts Center yesterday disclosed tentative plans to offer the Group 20 Players "fair participation" in the MEBAC's new arts center on Soldiers Field Road...
...Group 20 Players, a Wellesley summer theatre organization, protested yesterday against Metropolitan District Commission plans to lease a new arts center on Soldiers Field Road to the Metropolitan Boston Arts Center...
...Board also published a study of "racial inclusiveness," a term defined as the presence of at least one member in a congregation "other than the dominant racial group." Of 1,054 Congregational Christian churches (some 70% of the denomination's churches in U.S. metropolitan areas), nearly 27% turned out to be racially inclusive, compared to 17% in 1944. Said a board statement: "Scant basis for complacency . . . We have much yet to undertake in order to live up to our commitment as Christians and our reiterated statements that racial segregation...
...latest analysis of the religious composition of New York's metropolitan area, published this week by the city's Protestant Council, gives dramatic evidence of the decline of the once-preponderant white Protestants in Manhattan and vicinity. In 22 counties of the metropolitan area (reaching into New Jersey and Connecticut), 29.5% of the population is Roman Catholic, 18% Jewish and 15.9% Protestant; 2.2% is listed as "other," and 34.4% is unaffiliated. More than 55% of the city's estimated 960,000 Protestant church members are nonwhite. Among the nonwhites, the council, in an odd ethnological stance, listed...
...flames fairly well banked, rested in Milan before filming some jovial chit-chat for CBS Pundit Ed Murrow's TV talkathon, Small World. Meanwhile, back at her lawyers' office, things were less restful. Already soprano non grata at Milan's La Scala and Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, litigious Maria tossed a damage suit against another offending management: the Rome Opera House, which sacked her a year ago (TIME, Jan. 20, 1958) after she walked out after the first act of Norma pleading a "lowering of the voice." With a hint that a suit of their...