Word: pit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Protestantism's bright young men, Martin Emil Marty, 30, minister of the Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit in suburban Elk Grove Village, Ill., characterizes his life as "typically grey flannel: station wagon, barbecue pit, and all that goes with it." Nebraska-born "Marty" Marty is also an associate editor of the nondenominational Christian Century, and in last week's issue he winds up a six-installment series on religion in America that, clotted though it is with the fashionable jargon of the social analysts, is a perceptive young man's view of what he seems...
...balding head to the salvos of applause. That was in his native Jackson, Miss., where last week he conducted the stage premiere of his opera The Soldier plus his Malady of Love for a two-night stand. The next night, in black tie, he turned up in the pit of Manhattan's Lunt-Fontanne Theater, where he presided over a performance of Leroy Anderson's brassy musical Goldilocks. Four days later, in a sweatshirt, he was hovering over the orchestra that accompanied Rosalind Russell and cast in a two-hour production of Wonderful Town (see SHOW BUSINESS...
...introspection Musician Engel thinks of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. "That genius," he says, "wrote to order. He had no time for the muse to belt him." If the muse has failed to lay a glove on Engel, it is chiefly because he moves too fast. He has presided over the pit orchestras of roughly 130 Broadway productions, headed an esoteric organization called the Madrigal Singers, written reams of articles and a bag of books, including a five-volume study of European music entitled Renaissance to Baroque...
...than 28,000 miners and their families formerly lived in "an unorganized, undisciplined manner." i.e., scattered around as they chose, workers have now been assigned to living quarters according to their work areas and shifts; according to Peking's People's Daily, "the head of a mine pit is simultaneously company commander of the militia and head of a row of rooms in the living quarters." Meanwhile, the miners' wives and teen-age children have been put to work running 40 new "industrial enterprises," including a cement factory. Logical next step at Yangchuan (and already in operation...
...hampered by scant rehearsal time and by the fact that the Lyric Opera's orchestra is a competent but far from first-rate pickup group. But he kindled a performance of ravishing warmth and coloration, better by far than anything previously heard from the Lyric Opera's pit. With Soprano Birgit Nilsson as Isolde, Tenor Karl Liebl as Tristan, and Mezzo Grace Hoffman as Brangaene, Rodzinski shaped a youthfully vibrant production, as remarkable for its knotted dramatic tensions as it was for its moments of shadowed repose...