Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHERE is Santa Fe?" said the Metropolitan Opera's Rudolf Bing (TIME, Oct. 13), thereby touching off a major brouhaha in New Mexico and other music-minded states that disagree with Bing's assertion that there is little American opera of importance outside New York. This week, with the location of Santa Fe firmly fixed in his mind-he accepted an invitation to join the Santa Fe Opera's advisory committee-Rudi Bing had to cope not only with the Met opening but with a nightmare that made the Santa Fe tiff look peaceful. See MUSIC, Diva...
Very likely, some faculty disapproval proceeded not from either of these suspicions, but from other, quite plainly reprehensible, states of mind. One such state of mind belongs to men grown hidebound with inertia, teachers whose youth and fresh ideas lie behind them. These men often will oppose a change just because it is change. Another state of mind considers, as Dean Elder has put it, "a well-bred air of amateurishness more gentlemanly and becoming than down-to-earth efficiency...
Only to a Neanderthal mind would these proposals seem radical. They are, on the whole, necessary to the revival of strong government in a country which has suffered too long under a feeble executive leadership and a frequently "me-too" Congress...
...band ought also to keep in mind its prestige as a self-sustaining organization. Some members have pointed out that it might be damaged by having to depend upon charitable contributions...
Bell Telephone Science Series (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). The University of Southern California's Professor Frank Baxter, whose TV fame rests largely on a pleasantly wind-blown approach to Shakespeare, turns popular scientist in Gateways to the Mind, which attempts to make sense of the human senses...