Word: metropolitane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington desk Hoffman is a shirtsleeves administrator, working early & late, even-tempered, ready with smile and soft humor. At first he took to solitary soda-fountain lunches to save time, now he has small lunches with other officials, often at the Metropolitan Club. When he appears before Congress he turns on some of his old salesman's magic, has earned widespread respect for candor and readiness with information. "You should see him operate with Congress," said a colleague. "Whenever a knotty one comes up, he slaps his knee and says: 'Senator, you're entirely right...
They all derive from the same source: 18th Century Europe.*Last week Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum explored the source with an exhibition of 18th Century porcelain figures and tableware drawn from Italy, Germany, France, England, Austria and Spain...
...Metropolitan has been trumpeting a good deal about its new opera, Benjamin Britten's "Peter Grimes." I suspect that the fanfare has been, at least in part, an attempt to cover its neglect of modern opera, for "Grimes" seems to be the only work in the current repertoire that is less than 30 years old. This is not wholly the fault of the Met, since it has staged several unsuccessful premieres in recent decades; the empty seats in the Opera House Thursday night showed that the responsibility also lies with the public. But the Met has not gone...
...Metropolitan Opera is back in town, and Harvard men are again signing for walk-on parts at $1 a night. Each evening about 20 students don tights and helmets, push onto a crowded stage, and burble background noises. The Crimson sent a reporter to the scene for an eyewitness report of their activities...
Lyons opened the conference by telling the 50-odd people in the room, "If you are all interested in newspaper writing, it is perhaps just as well there aren't more of you here. Because of the number of metropolitan dailies that have folded this year, jobs are extremely scarce," he claimed...