Word: metropolitanism
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About the last place one would expect to find the head of a giant business is in jail. Nonetheless, there is a strong chance that R. Harper Brown, president of Container Corp. of America (1975 sales: $953 million) will spend several weeks next year in Chicago's Metropolitan Correctional Facility. He was the most important of 47 executives from 22 companies who pleaded no contest to federal charges of fixing prices on folding-cardboard boxes between 1960 and 1974. Last week Federal Judge James Parsons sentenced Brown to 60 days in jail and fined him $35,000; 14 other...
...John's almost snatched a win from Indiana in the finals of the Holiday Festival, a game which nonetheless paled before the spectacle of Rutgers and the Redmen playing for the Metropolitan championship before 20,000 raving fans who made 33rd Street sound like a calvary charge over a tin bridge...
Robert Wilson's Einstein on the Beach arrived for two performances at the Metropolitan Opera last week after causing excitement in Avignon, Venice and Belgrade. It is hardly an opera that sends audiences home humming and whistling. Wilson, 32, is a theatrical anarchist, a direct descendant of Dada. He believes in epic projections. One of his earlier plays, The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin, clocked in at twelve hours. Einstein on the Beach runs just over 4½ hours, unfolding through four acts, nine scenes and five "knee plays"-short connecting vignettes. Performed without intermission, it requires...
...Federal Youth Center in Pleasanton, Calif. She was also said to be upset by the attention paid her by young female prisoners, who made her a cult heroine of the left. Patty demanded to be moved, and on Nov. 9 was transferred to San Diego's Metropolitan Correctional Center, where she occupied a small, neat cell by herself and washed dishes and made coffee for the inmates...
...Donizetti operas must be getting bare; the new trend in vehicles for the box office sopranos may well be little-known French operas. Along with one fragile masterpiece, Manon, Jules Massenet wrote several operas that fit this description. After 87 years, one of them, Esclarmonde, has just made its Metropolitan Opera debut as a vehicle for Joan Sutherland. The title character is a Byzantine Empress with magical powers, and after hearing the music, one can only wish that she had used her sorcery to summon up a different show-Rigoletto, maybe...