Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China-Burma-India theater during the war (rode a truck on the Burma Road), turned to commercial art and book-jacket illustration after the war. An unashamed copyist, who perfected his techniques by long hours of studying the masterpieces of Velasquez, Rembrandt and Rubens in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, he did his first cover for TIME in April 1957 (Morocco's King Mohammed...
...else-complete integration with France . . . Algerians would benefit as regards salaries, social security, education and vocational training, from all measures provided for in Metropolitan France; they would live and work wherever they saw fit throughout the territory of the Republic; in other words, they would . . . become part and parcel of the French people, who would then, in effect, spread from Dunkirk to Tamanrasset...
Last week's 42-member visiting troupe, now at the Metropolitan Opera House in the middle of a three-month cross-country tour, avoided the more blatantly Westernized confections in the repertory, such as Broadway Cinderella, in which the chorus line appears in white top hats and tails. Instead they concentrated on a number of vaguely oriental-flavored exercises, whose paper-thin plots were bolstered with barbarically blazing sets and sumptuously encrusted costumes. Pastel-colored paper globes hung in grapelike clusters, spangled parasols twirled like colored tops, flowery kimonos fluttered beneath frozen comic masks...
Culling Competition. The expansion has some alley operators worried. With fat profits (often 13% return on investment after taxes and a ten-year amortization of invested capital) have come new alley operators to share in bowling's bonanza. In some metropolitan centers such as Chicago, Detroit and New York City, bowling alleys have been overbuilt. Los Angeles, with eight bowling centers in a 3½-mile radius, has been faced with bowling price wars. But the national average is still one lane for every 1,900 people, and bowling proprietors feel that one lane per 1,500 population...
...first season the Metropolitan District Commission ceded the use of the new Theatre to the Cambridge Drama Festival, which offered three productions over a period of nine and a half weeks. As it turned out--and quite accidentally--all three were by Shakespeare. Fortunately, Jacques Barzun's recent statement, "I agree with that small but articulate group of people who would rather not see Shakespeare acted"--shocking for a man of his staggering brilliance and perception--fell on deaf ears...