Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hitler-Stalin pact. One of the directors of Rome's Armenian Pontifical College insists that Armenians everywhere, Communist or antiCommunist, generally admire him as a "man with a head on his shoulders." Diplomats, defectors, Russian specialists in ten capitals from Bonn to Beirut, and Chicago businessmen who met Mikoyan on his 1936 U.S. trip-all were interviewed for the cover story; see FOREIGN NEWS, The Survivor...
Space pioneers of the comics are usually large and knobby with muscles. They are almost always male, though decorative females may be taken along for plot purposes. According to a symposium of psychologists which met in New York last week to discuss the public's notions about space flight, this athlete-type spaceman is miscast for the part. Every ounce of weight and every cubic inch of volume will be precious on a spaceship. Big, strong crewmen will not be welcome. Only brains to act as computers will be needed, plus an absolute minimum of supporting tissue...
...elegant, acerbic Rudolf Bing has taken some sharply critical looks at culture in the U.S., has cast an occasional wistful eye at the old-world advantages-including fat government subsidies-of European opera houses. Despite the fact that, artistically speaking, there are really no big managerial plums after the Met (Milan's La Scala is not likely to hire a non-Italian boss), gossip that Vienna-born Manager Bing was about to leave has persistently cropped up. Last week the Met's directors announced that Bing has been signed to a new five-year contract, and that...
...contract, longest in the Met's history, will keep Bing in New York (at a "substantially improved" salary) through the spring of 1962, and perhaps 1964. will allow him to lead the Met from its old house into the promised land of Manhattan's huge new Center for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Square. While the Met directors were praising Bing's 1956-57 record (the house sold 94% of capacity all season long), Bing was in Germany, window-shopping for the latest fashions in opera houses. After clambering about the bobsled-shaped boxes of Cologne...
...search for authority in the world today [and ] insofar as we are slaves and spokesmen, the minister has the same authority as Christ." This authority is "total and unlimited, does not admit others beside it. and you can't be neutral when you've met...