Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That is about all that can be said for this work, which was commissioned and introduced by the Opera Company of Philadelphia last week, with the composer staging the work and taking a walk-on role. The hero in question, David Murphy (Baritone Dominic Cossa), has been asleep in the four-poster for ten years. His self-centered wife Mildred (Mezzo Diane Curry) has long since removed the mis from her misfortune by putting David on public display. She has even installed a tape recorder to immortalize his every snore. The drama comes to life, so to speak, when David...
...country's leading black newspaper executives gather in Philadelphia this week for the 36th annual meeting of their National Newspaper Publishers Association, they have a critical question to ponder: Are their enterprises, too, becoming invisible...
Eugene Ormandy, H.H.D., conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra...
...will students--and many other fans, for that matter--be aroused by the fact that every other year those of us south of the New Jersey Turnpike will have to travel to Baker Field to see the multiflex offense. In the past we could go to Philadelphia one year and Old Nassau the next...
...secretary for labor-management relations. That job led to a 1973 appointment as head of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. Along the way, Usery honed his skills as a peacemaker in dozens of bitter disputes, including the 1970 postal workers' strike, the 1972 teachers' strike in Philadelphia, last September's walkout at National Airlines and even the wildcat strike of players in the National Football League...