Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Starzel, who served as the Pantagraph's news editor 30 years ago, recalls the time he rendered a regional bank robbery nearly invisible-by playing it on Page One. Several veteran Pantagraph newsmen searched page 3 for the story, rebuked Starzel for failing to run it. The backward progress of another bank-robbery story was a capsule of the Pantagraph policy. Since the rifled bank lay outside Pantagraph territory, the news broke on Page One; as the bandits fled toward Bloomington the story fled to page 2 (area news); when police trapped the culprits in Bloomington, the event...
These farces come from Renaissance Spain, medieval France, and seventeenth century Denmark. This is almost enough to restore one's faith in the doctrine of progress: nearly everything good about the occasion is supplied by Eliot House, which is, after all, more or less of a twentieth century institution. Since, on top of everything else, the translations tend towards the unspeakable, it was actors and directors vs. plays all evening. I scored it a loss, a draw...
...warmly debated "a reply to the Pope." It turned out to be a cautious document, expressing interest in the proposed meeting but stressing lack of information. "The question is how ecumenical will the council be in composition and in spirit?" The committee advanced its own version of ecumenical cooperation: "Progress toward unity is made when churches meet together on the basis of mutual respect and with a full commitment on the part of each church to the truth of the Gospel, to charity and to a faithful interpretation of its deepest convictions...
...kind of disaster-and-triumph series that makes opera legends. Rehearsing the part of Anne Trulove in Washington's Opera Society production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, the soprano was felled by a virus; she left the role to Baltimore's Phyllis Frankel, a singer who studied for an operatic career with famed Soprano Rosa Ponselle, has appeared with New York City Opera. Then the title-role tenor came down with laryngitis during dress rehearsal, was replaced by Mallory Walker, a 23-year-old soldier from Fort Myer, Va., where he is singing...
Promising Boom. Last week's production of the eight-year-old Rake's Progress brought out as rare an operagoer as Walter Lippmann, also the Secretaries of Commerce and the Air Force, a sprinkling of ambassadors-all of whom seemed to glow at Washington's cultural boom. The opera company is not alone. Washington also has a promising ballet company and the fine National Symphony, whose reputation has grown steadily, today is not far from the top echelon of U.S. orchestras. This season the orchestra hopes to repeat last year's feat of landing...