Word: seene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...imagination of the choreographers. But as always, the company was at its best in the familiar pageantesque fairy-tale fare-Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty-and in a revised and turbulent Petrouchka. Fonteyn & Co. still moved with a cool and stately charm unmatched by any other ballet group seen in the U.S. That seems to be more than enough for U.S. audiences; half a million people who will see the Royal Ballet during its present tour have already bought more than a million dollars' worth of tickets...
...German resurgence is coming to a peak in the U.S. this fall. In Manhattan this week the Museum of Modern Art will open the largest German modern art show to be seen in the U.S. in more than 25 years-178 paintings, sculptures and prints. Next week Boston's Museum of Fine Arts will open its "European Masters of Our Time" exhibition, including 44 works by modern Germans. Three handsome and scholarly monographs on German 20th century art are now rolling off the presses.* Significantly, the artists most praised today are without exception the ones banned or exiled...
...oddities of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., the world's biggest grocery, is the unique form of its management. For 42 years A. & P. has operated under a family trust whose proprietors were so deliberately obscure that most of the 145,000 A. & P. employees had never seen them. Last week the death, at 92, of George Ludlum Hartford finally ended the trust. For the first time since it began as a Manhattan tea store in 1859, the giant $545 million chain and its 4,200 stores is headed entirely by a management minus the Hartford name...
...Lone Wolf. For Mike Benedum it was also the capper on as fabulous a career as the fabled oil industry has ever seen. He has had a hand in virtually every major U.S. oilfield, and wound up with a personal fortune estimated at something like $250 million.* "I've always been a lone wolf," says Benedum. "I started as one and I'm finishing as one. I may be the last "of the breed...
...Boston Post, now no longer published, is rarely seen in the hands of graduate students." from The Unofficial Guide to Graduate Life published by the Graduate Student Council September...