Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WITH these lines, TIME'S Music section last year concluded a story about the famed-and-furious soprano's latest fracas at the Met. Last week Diva Callas was indeed in Dallas, helping to launch the city's top-notch new opera company and give a concert. On hand to witness the historic meeting between the Lone Star State and the stately star of opera was TIME Music Researcher Dorothea Bourne. For a report on how the limerick came true, see Music, Callas in Dallas...
Across the Asparagus. Kennedy's Senate campaign had interrupted his courtship of dark-haired Jacqueline Bouvier, daughter of Manhattan Financier John V. Bouvier III. He had met her a year before at a friend's home ("I leaned across the asparagus," says Kennedy, "and asked her for a date"). In September 1953, Senator Jack and Socialite Jackie were married in Newport, with some 2,000 people arriving in chartered buses to stand outside while Boston's Archbishop Richard J. Gushing performed the nuptial Mass in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church. Jackie soon found out what...
...proposal for IRBM missile bases in Europe was met with some reservations. Many European civilians felt a little nervous at learning for the first time that their countries were to be the bases for strategic retaliation. The Norwegians and Danes, who have long since made it clear that they want no strategic missile bases on their soil, remained uninterested. The Dutch and Belgians still felt NATO ought to concentrate more heavily on building up conventional forces for the defense of The Netherlands and Belgium. The West Germans, whose enthusiasm for missile sites within their frontiers is restrained, grumbled that they...
...poet and the jazzman met in a San Francisco basement, aptly named The Cellar, to discuss a fusion of the arts. "In Now with Winter," said the poet, "we try something slow and soft. In Artifacts we want a sax solo, like the thrill is gone...
...sing in Italian-the production turned out to be topnotch, with bright sets, smooth and funny staging. The cast, mostly imported and mostly unknown in the U.S. (except for brilliant Mezzo-Soprano Giulietta Simionato). had been so ably picked by Impresario Kelly that the total effect surpassed the Met's memorable Don Pasquale, something of a standard for opera buffa. Said one opera veteran: "As of today, Dallas is on the map as an opera town along with New York, San Francisco and Chicago...