Word: mets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both companies held back on real novelty until later in the week, and here the New York City Opera moved decidedly ahead. In an attempt to give French opera more of a play, the Met revived and refurbished Charles Gounod's hopelessly languid Romeo et Juliette-an opera that only illustrates the composer's remarkable capacity for turning great poetry into sentimental salon entertainment. Furthermore, the performance was sadly deficient in the French accent, both in words and music. Franco Corelli nearly strangled on every attempt to produce the pure Gallic B-flat, while all of Soprano Mirella...
...tributes and demands for encores greeted the Angelenos' two concerts, not the least because Mehta had complimented the audiences by conducting one of Enesco's Rumanian Rhapsodies from memory, while Kondrashin had used a printed score. At the top, anyway, the fray was friendly. The two conductors met, joked, and talked about politics. Said the vanquished Kondrashin to the victorious Mehta after the Californians' debut: "Maestro, it was beautiful...
Physicians who deal with leukemia are reluctant to talk in terms of "breakthroughs" and "cures." Their fundamental position is that acute leukemia, the most common killing disease among children aged three to 14, is still fatal. With that reservation, however, a group of first-rank U.S. medical researchers met in Boston last week to discuss a series of remarkable gains that are now giving leukemia victims progressively longer survival times with greater comfort. In a few cases, they reported complete freedom from evident disease for as long as 15 years. In cautiously double-negative terms, they admitted that they could...
Devil Found. Svetlana's first child, Josef, was three before Stalin saw him. Five of his eight grandchildren he never met at all. Barely noting Svetlana's existence, he lived like an ascetic misanthrope in his dacha at Kuntsevo, the walls covered with blown-up magazine pictures of anonymous children. It was, she recalls, "A house of gloom, a somber monument. Not for anything in the world would I go there now!" And she adds, with a characteristic touch of superstition, that Stalin's soul, "so restless everywhere else," may still haunt that gloomy refuge. Svetlana last...
Monro, Master John Finley, and at least one other University official met with Colonel Pell and advised him that he was acting wrongly; he ignored the advice and held fast to his own judgment...