Word: santas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...signed contract with Pan American International Oil Co. (Standard Oil of Indiana). Pan American will invest $60 million in a 1,540-sq. mi. section of Santa Cruz and Chubut Provinces. For the first five years Pan American will get $10 for each cubic meter of oil it produces for Y.P.F., then the price will gradually be adjusted to match prevailing world prices...
...Santa Barbara. A state teachers college until California took it over in 1944. the campus is half built but rising fast, has a fine academic reputation in spite of distractions, e.g., a mile and a half of college-owned ocean beach. The 2,480 students get burned and learned at the same time, and some of them work their way through school skindiving for abalone...
...standard for the cast: "I'd rather have you represent your parts well than sing well." This elevation of theatrics over music has enabled 32-year-old Composer Floyd to write one of the most dramatic of contemporary operas-Susannah (TIME, Oct. 8, 1956). Last week the Santa Fe (N.Mex.) Opera premiered Floyd's latest work. Musically, Wuthering Heights was at least as good as its distinguished predecessor, but Librettist Floyd was not quite up to the job Composer Floyd had set for himself...
...Almost No Brontë." The commission (around $4,500), which spurred Floyd to write a "music drama" out of Emily Brontë's "eminently operatic" novel, came from Director John Crosby of the Santa Fe Opera, a year-old enterprise that runs an open-air theater in the "cultural capital of the Southwest." Floyd read the novel four times and came to a highly debatable conclusion: "I realized it's very badly written; I could use almost no Brontë dialogue. There's no immediacy to it; I had to do a creative job." The job, libretto...
...dream" aria in which she confesses her love of Heathcliff. Audience reaction was tepid; "I liked the movie better," said one mink-draped woman. But professionals in the audience cheered. Said Metropolitan Opera Board Member Howard J. Hook Jr.: "This puts the Met to shame. How come we let Santa Fe steal a march...