Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...market glutted by young musicians, almost too many symphony orchestras, and too little opera and ballet, the London musical scene presents a series of odd contrasts. Perhaps the most interesting feature is the spectacle of an opera company in acute growing pains. London's historic Royal Opera House in Covent Garden has long been without a regular opera company, but the queues of eager customers buy out every performance of such old standbyes as "Carmen" and "Manon" weeks in advance...
...trying Scotto claimed that he had raised enough money to guarantee a week's run. Lawrence Tibbett, head of the American Guild of Musical Artists, said it was no go: Scotto would have to stick by his contract and post two weeks' salary before the 40-odd people in the U.S. chorus, all A.G.M.A. members, could participate. Sputtered Impresario Scotto: "It is to be ashamed . . . to spoil an opera season like this...
...special convention of the diocese last week, the 1,000-odd clerical and lay delegates reached an obvious compromise. As new Bishop of New York they elected tall, cigaret-smoking Rt. Rev. Charles Kendall Gilbert, suffragan* bishop under Bishop Manning for the past 16 years. Bishop Gilbert knows his big, heterogeneous flock inside out, has maintained an average of 2,200 confirmations a year since becoming suffragan bishop. His chief drawback as a candidate was, paradoxically, a major factor in getting him elected. Bishop Gilbert is 68-which gives him only 3½ years in office before compulsory retirement...
White-bearded Menno Simons, who gave the group its name, was a Catholic priest of 44 when he left his church in 1536 to join Grebel's movement. Then the group were called Anabaptists because of their belief in the necessity of adult baptism. Like the Quakers 150-odd years later, they eschewed a paid priesthood and the use of force, did their best to follow literally the precepts of Jesus, patterned their lives on those of the early Christians. In those days, even more than now, such behavior was not only unconventional but dangerous...
...Macloud was impatient, but at 80, having bossed the Macloud household for 50-odd years, she knew a trick or two. That evening in St. Louis, while waiting for her eldest, son to call, she wore her grey silk dress and looked as calm as Whistler's mother. The lamp over her chair was lit, but her eyes were closed and her head was tilted back, "as if some beneficent rays were reaching her from the 60-watt bulb...