Word: pit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Negroes have long had total acceptance in the operatic world as singers (after all, a voice is a voice), they have had slower going in the orchestra pit. Lewis' only notable predecessor as a Negro conductor was Dean Dixon, now 50, who became the first Negro ever to lead a major U.S. orchestra when he guest-conducted the New York Philharmonic and the NBC Symphony in the early 1940s. But discouraged by his chances of landing a permanent job in the U.S., he moved to Europe in 1949, then to Australia, where he is currently conductor...
...also lived by it; it was his Vergil, guide to those infernal regions from which he returned a man possessed by demons. He exorcised them by the masterpiece called Under the Volcano, which can be read as a novel but understood only as a parable of the pit. "William James if not Freud," he wrote in a letter to his British publisher, "would certainly agree with me when I say that the agonies of the drunkard find their most accurate poetic analogue in the agonies of the mystic who has abused his powers...
...long time ago." The government's protective measures (a virtual ban on coal imports, a twopence-per-gallon tax on oil) have been to no avail. And, despite promises that they will get new jobs, the 120,000 miners who will be thrown out of work by the pit closures are no longer sure that Alf Robens is their best friend. Mine unions now call Robens "the self-worshiping Socialist...
...became the Chief of Staff's official residence soon after the post was created in 1903. The 66-year-old house boasts an elevator (installed by the Douglas MacArthurs), a magnificent view of Washington (thanks to Mamie Eisenhower, who cleared away trees and shrubbery blocking it), a barbecue pit (the Matthew Ridgways), and a hotel-size kitchen (the Lyman Lemnitzers...
...Angeles Landscape Architect Henry Soto, who had to drive by a 40-ft.-deep clay pit every day on his way to work, was suddenly struck by an idea. Rounding up a few partners, he bought the pit and converted it into a private dump, charging $8 per load. To appease neighbors' noses, he covered each day's refuse with a layer of earth. To screen the mess from passersby, he built a bamboo fence, planted the border with floodlit flower beds and palm trees. When finished, the area looked so little like a dump that...