Word: rakings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orchestra seats for the premiere of Composer Igor Stravinsky's first full-length opera was fetching as high as $500 on the black market. Operagoers and critics came from all over Europe and the U.S. In spite of all this interest, the first-night reaction to The Rake's Progress was one of happy surprise. The harsh and riotous Stravinsky rhythms of other years (e.g., in The Firebird, The Rite of Spring) were missing. The Rake's Progress sang with old-fashioned melody...
Indispensable asset to both the rake's and scholar's progress through his first collegiate year, the 1951 "Confidential Guide to Freshman Courses" will be distributed free to entering Harvard men on their arrival in Cambridge...
Bitter Pill. San Marino's casino, its hotels and movie houses stood empty. The gamblers from Genoa stopped paying their rake-off to the government. The government had to borrow money to pay its employees, soon was issuing I.O.U.s instead of wages. Three hundred San Marinese applied for immigration visas to the U.S. Then the Communist government quit. Condemning the Communists' "stupid and egotistic policy," the legislature called for a new election, last week set up a bipartisan regency council to talk terms with Italy. Italy wouldn't budge...
...never enters her head that so dull a man as the doctor could love her in selfless fashion. She thinks that son Raymond may bring her romance and a fresh start-until he attacks her crudely. She tries, vainly, to commit suicide. Years later, by now a hardened rake, Raymond thinks to himself: "Everything serves as fuel for passion: abstinence sharpens it, repletion strengthens it, virtue keeps it awake . . . It is a frantic and a horrible obsession...
...these labors, plus a summer radio show for Coca-Cola on Sunday evenings (CBS, 8 p.m., E.D.T.), Mario Lanza this year will rake in something between $750,000 and $1,000,00 -roughly twice last season's deficit of the Metropolitan Opera...