Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...really begun to concentrate on fundraising, he has stirred up enough enthusiasm to bring in $2,000,000 in the last six weeks. Even more important is the new spirit he has generated on his campus. "Things have reached a crescendo," says he. "I've never seen a faculty or board of trustees as enthusiastic for change. It makes all the difference in the world for someone sitting in my seat...
...richole, never before done at the Met and rarely seen in the U.S. anywhere, replaced Die Fledermaus as the Met's showpiece operetta and special New Year's Eve attraction. The score is second-rate Offenbach, first performed in 1868, well after the glories of La Belle Helens (1864) and Orpheus (1858); but it is still the work of a master in his field. The libretto is by two hacks of genius, Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, who vaguely based it (as they did their celebrated book for Carmen) on a work by Prosper...
...Miami Beach, Fla. last week came the biggest horde of vacationers ever seen in a winter resort. The influx swamped the railroads; five extra Christmas-vacation trains put on by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad and the Atlantic Coast Line were still not enough, although three extra trains had been ample last year. Eastern Air Lines stepped up flights to 200 daily, with capacity for moving 13,800 sun seekers a day in and out of Miami, estimated an 18% traffic rise over last year...
Essentially, Fitzgerald is a reportorial poet: what he has felt does not come so easily, but what he has seen and experienced, he can transmit beautifully. There is the omnivorous movie screen ("A square of sucking brilliance in the dark"), a storm-tossed ship, the shock of an operation...
This first novel is an attempt to get inside the mind of Juanito, an illiterate village Indian from the mountains of Mexico. Every tourist there has seen his like: thin-headed, with a mop of coarse black hair, large-eyed, flat-nosed, full-lipped, looking with impassive dignity from beneath a frayed straw hat. Juanito is the stuff of revolutions, but his private revolutions fail, and he has learned only one thing in life: how to die well...