Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opera (the broadcast one) 20 weeks a year, year after year. As one example, to keep from repeating itself, Opera News has looked at its most performed opera. Carmen, from just about every possible angle. In 14 issues it has explored such facets as 1) Carmen's progress from vulgarity to respectability among opera lovers; 2) the history of the first performance; 3) the story of Prosper Merimee, author of the original story; 4) the relation between Carmen and her male counterpart, Don Giovanni; 5) Carmen in Korea. Each time one of the old operatic favorites looms, Mrs. Peltz...
...scientists who avoid basic research in favor of contract work. As a result, Conant notes, "It would be safe to say that a majority of American students who receive a bachelor's degree study in an institution where little or no first rate research or scholarly work is in progress...
Encouragingly, however, the issue contains still more excellent fiction--selections again, from a novel in progress by James Reichley. The three sections, which appear here under the title "Shimonis," sketch quickly and incisively the character of a young, aggressive politician and the small Pennsylvania city in which he lives. Reichley's staccato prose is full of the broken rhythms of speech and laughter which fill the words with energy until they seem ready to burst from the page with excitement. Sometimes callous, sometimes raucous, always to the point, his style is very far from Agee...
LeLand believed that progress had been made by broaching the subject and finding out the primary objections. The Committee felt that it would be difficult to get a reversal this year, but constructive work could be done to help next year's freshman class obtain the extension...
Behind the plate, a hot contest is in progress between Bing Crosby, Phil Haughey, and John Davis. The sophomore Davis has been hitting quite well, but the position is still uncertain...