Word: metropolitanism
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...strongly resent Robert Hughes' snide remarks concerning the Metropolitan Museum's retrospective show of Andrew Wyeth...
...child in Cambridge, Mass., Martha Duffy used to satisfy her thirst for Mozart and Verdi by listening each Saturday afternoon to Texaco's Metropolitan Opera radio broadcast. She was usually well prepared. The previous week, she and her sister would borrow the score of the upcoming performance from the local library and, to her sister's piano accompaniment, sing the entire opera together. Other afternoons, she often went to Boston's Fenway Park where she bought a grandstand seat in leftfield. Duffy remembers: "I was a Red Sox fan, and my first crush was on Ted Williams...
Very Wary. Black politicians, who argue persuasively that the overwhelming pro-Carter black vote guaranteed his victory, are anticipating a handsome reward. Wily George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO, was well aware that labor's vote in many metropolitan areas was another major element in the Georgian's election, and was not bashful about pushing some Cabinet favorites (see box). Nor was he bashful about making his policy preferences known. Carter has suggested voluntary wage and price guidelines, rather than formal controls, to curb inflation. Meany made it clear at a news conference last week that...
...special events like the World Series. It means that people in 23 million households choose to get their weekly fix of girl watching, double-entendre sex jokes and mild violence here. It is not, apparently, a show for mental prepubescents only. Angels ranks fourth among all programs in metropolitan areas, seventh among college graduates, seventh among viewers with incomes above $20,000. Most important, it ranks first with adult viewers regardless of their station in life-which may or may not say something about the state of adulthood in the U.S. these days...
Baltimore and Boston have the same number of people in their metropolitan areas, but the Red Sox are the only baseball team in New England and draw fans from a five-state area. Crabtown has Philadelphia and plush new Veterans' Stadium to the north, and Washington, D. C. to the south. The Senators may have moved to Texas, but their ex-fans have been too busy burning Bob Short in effigy and waiting for Congress to do something to cast their toward the Chesapeake...