Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been true with other alumni meetings in the Houses, visitors were most impressed by the undergraduate panel, and particularly by Harry Fitzgibbon '58, who met his House Master for the first time yesterday morning and praised the House system because "it lets me alone...
...only team that both squads have met is Andover, which beat Yale but lost to the Crimson, 70 to 65. On the basis of this contest, the Yardlings are slightly favored, if they show an improvement over their most recent efforts...
...against union. Only 452 said no to Nasser as the United Arab Republic's chief of state. By this count Nasser won 99.994% of the vote. It was even better than the 99.784% he racked up running for President of merely Egypt in 1956. As the Syrian Cabinet met under old President Shukri el Kuwatly to dissolve itself, Nasser raised his old Egyptian army comrade Abdel Hakim Amer to field marshal and appointed him commander of the republic's armed forces...
Starr, a wealthy insurance executive, decided to remedy the situation, offered to finance a really authentic new Met production of the opera as viewed through Japanese eyes. The result still had a few blurred edges, but physically and vocally it was surely the handsomest Butterfly ever mounted on a U.S. stage...
Authentic Touches. The previous Met mounting of Butterfly lasted an astonishing 34 seasons, dating back to the year Geraldine Farrar retired from the role. For the new production, General Manager Rudolf Bing suggested several European designers, including Cecil Beaton, but Patron Starr would have none of them, personally went to Japan and brought back two experts: Yoshio Aoyama of Tokyo's Kabukiza Theater as director and Stage Designer Motohiro Nagasaka for sets and costumes. Between them, they stripped Butterfly of all its sukiyaki-styled stage business, painted it in subdued colors ("to express inner harmonies and conflicts"), dressed...