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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...source of the gloom was not new. In the past eight years, labor disputes have four times brought the Met to the brink of disaster. In 1961 its opening was ensured at the last moment deus ex machina (when President Kennedy intervened). But this time, New Yorkers were realizing with shock, there might be no opening at all. Worried, tired and gaunt, Met General Manager Rudolf Bing told TIME, "We don't know where to go. It is now a matter of life and death...
Saber Rattling. On the surface it had all looked like part of a familiar cycle-labor v. management saber rattling over money, hours, work conditions -all capable of rational settlement. But the talks between the Met and eleven unions were hampered by past rancors and lack of trust. Bombay-born Zubin Mehta, music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and a regular conductor at the Met, last week scornfully characterized the negotiations as an "Oriental-bazaar style of bargaining." Bing speaks openly of the "sheer demagoguery" of his adversaries, and is furious that they don't take pity...
...good and healthy. "It could indicate," he explains, "the disintegration of the more superficial aspects of role differentiation." One may wonder why that is healthy. Clinical Psychologist Leonard Olinger regards the fad as "an overreaction that tends to deny the real differences between the sexes, just as in the past we have been forced to be terribly different when there isn't that much difference. The truth lies somewhere in between...
...ordinary theatergoer, the new season brings the hope of reliving some enchanted theatrical evening of the past. For the actor, the new season holds out the hope of a breakthrough to fame -after which he tends to abandon the theater like a Brando or a Burton. The producer nourishes the hone of a croupier to rake in the chips. The backer, that garishly garbed seraph who roots for his cash on opening night with cacophonous enthusiasm, hopes for some sort of glittering new social credential and the consolation prize of a virtually guaranteed tax loss. The critic approaches...
...been announced for the season, only seven plays and four musicals are definitely scheduled to open between now and Jan. 1. Indeed, this may be the year of permanent transition to heavy off-Broadway production, which rose from 37 new plays and musicals in 1966-67 to 80 this past year...