Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Death by the Window. When General Manager Rudolf Bing decided to overhaul Carmen last spring, he handed the staging job to Tyrone Guthrie, topnotch director of London's Old Vic, and Designer Rolf Gerard. From the start, they decided on "naturalism," e.g., the workers in a Seville cigarette factory ought to look, for a change, a bit like factory workers...
Anyone who wants to get at the cyclotron for minor repairs can go through a small seven-ton door in the inner wall. For a major overhaul the maintenance crew can open the two 110 ton doors at the West end or the two 60 ton ones at the East end. These slabs are pushed back and forth on roller tracks by a large crane hitched to the ceiling. The total shielding around the machine amounts to some 600 cubic yards of concrete and 34,000 pounds of structural steel...
...radical new plan for higher education. "We propose," said Bronk, "to make this a university in which the sharp distinctions between undergraduates and graduates will be eliminated ... in which students will be given the opportunity to progress as rapidly as they are able." It was a plan that would overhaul traditional requirements from top to bottom, slash away department lines...
...overhaul job, General Manager Rudolf Bing had turned to the Met's own staff of directors and set designers. Staff Director Hans Busch planned to give "Cav," a turbulent little tragedy of Sicilian chivalry, a thoroughly realistic treatment. He slipped up on some details. Sample: when cuckolded Alfio challenged swaggering Seducer Turiddu, Alfio stood well back, out of all possible harm's way, looking considerably more foolish than furious. But despite such incongruities, and the fussy set and cluttered stage that offended Critic Downes, the singing (notably by Tenor Richard Tucker and Soprano Zinka Milanov) almost turned Cavalleria...
...fourth victory in five games against Chicago. It was also a source of considerable satisfaction to the Red Wing management. Operating on the theory that a winning combination should be broken up before it turns stale and complacent, the Wings had given their line-up a thorough overhaul after winning hockey's Stanley Cup last season. Major change: Goalie Sawchuk, untried in the National League, to replace Veteran Harry Lumley (who was sold to Chicago...