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...trick in Otello, the great tragic opera of Verdi's old age, is to pile into Scene 1 at full emotional gallop and to keep at it without nagging for three hours. Both vocally and dramatically, it is one of the most difficult works in all opera, as Verdi himself acknowledged ("This lago," he said grandly, "is humanity"). Last week, after a lapse of two years, the Metropolitan Opera tackled Otello and achieved a performance that did justice to Verdi's looming vision. It also served as a reminder that the Met is having a brilliant season...
...through the conductor and 2) the conductor meets resistance and therefore slows down. Physicist Neuringer's proposal is to create a strong magnetic field on the front surface of the re-entry body. When ionized air flows across it, the braking action of the magnetism will make it pile up in a deeper, slower moving layer that will not transfer as much heat to the solid surface...
...majority of the committee favored the stockpile idea, and its vice chairman, New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton P. Anderson, drafted a bill to authorize stockpile buying. The plan is for AEC to pile up 7,250 tons of concentrate a year, expand mill capacity from 17,500 tons to 24,750 tons by the end of 1959 In a few years when AEC's contracts to buy from Canada and Africa expire, AEC could feed the concentrate into atomic plants in place of the foreign concentrate that now supplies half of U.S. needs. By 1966 the stockpile...
...spoke with a Swedish importer who wanted 20,000 tons of fuel oil a month from Getty's Middle East fields. He turned down an invitation to lunch. He took a call from a shipbuilder in Tokyo about details of a new Getty supertanker. Turning to a pile of cables, he read a report on his new, 18-in. Mideast pipeline, fired off an answer to a Turkish importer's request for a large quantity of crude oil. In midafternoon Getty received a distinguished visitor: John D. Rockefeller III, 51, scion of an older oil dynasty, who came...
...Author Kerouac is a cut-rate Thomas Wolfe, and he writes in vivid if not always lucid gushes and rushes, a style he attributes to the rambling reminiscences of his French Canadian mother. Sample, describing movies : "O grayscreen gangster cocktail rainy-day roaring gunshot spectral immortality B movie tire pile black-in-the-mist Wild-america but it's a crazy world!" In one sense, Author Kerouac's dithyrambic denial of mind may be salutary in an age that overrationalizes and overanalyzes existence. But if the concept of the beat generation can be reduced to its philosophical origins...