Word: parise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the common market idea first came up, the British saw a surer future in their own Commonwealth and held aloof from any such untried continental combine. But to safeguard their European trade stake, they cooked up a plan for a wider, 17-nation Western European "free trade area" which...
Out of the Market. In Paris last week the French tactic was to propose what the British presumably could not accept-that the 17-nation area become the same sort of tightly preferential trade club with common tariff walls as the French expect the six-nation community to be. That...
Fighting for some compromise that would head off costly continental "discrimination" against British steel, chemicals and other manufactures, Britain's Paymaster General Reginald Maudling offered to stay in Paris indefinitely (not exactly a fate worse than death) if necessary to negotiate.
Rudolf Bing, general manager of New York's Metropolitan Opera Company, is not given to discussing his dreams, but it has been whispered that he is haunted by a recurring nightmare. In the dream he is Prince Paris, lost atop a papier-mâché Mount Ida on...
"It Must Be So." With summer festivals extending opera into a year-round enterprise, and with operatic recordings gushing forth in unprecedented profusion, the life of a globetrotting soprano has taken on a frenetic quality that would have astounded the great voices of a more leisurely age. Tebaldi will sing...