Word: sellout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ducal City. To General Manager Bing himself, the offstage chime of the cash register sounded almost as sweet as the applause. For the first time in Met history, he had sold opening-night tickets separately, rather than as part of a subscription or series package. The sellout audience, paying up to $25 a seat, plunked a handsome $53,112 in the till. Bing did not rest on his first-night work. Two nights later, he hit the critics and another sellout audience with a second new production...
...other whistle stops, cities and metropolises in 35 states, England and Scotland. The trek to what Actor-Director Charles Laughton calls "the huge neglected audience" began last February. Since then, in three tours consisting mostly of one-night stands, Don Juan in Hell has proved a steady sellout everywhere, in arenas, theaters and stadiums, outgrossing South Pacific in Denver, drawing an audience of 3,800 in Emporia, Kans. (pop. 15,500), emptying Carnegie Hall's ticket racks in eight hours. Total receipts so far: about...
...Denver Symphony Orchestra, six years ago, was a lackluster outfit playing to small, dutiful audiences, and losing money on a budget of $60,000. Last week the budget was up to a smart $260,000; the symphony season opened in Denver Municipal Auditorium (3,200 seats) with a near sellout crowd in evening dress, and the music sparkled...
...cases where GOP support of Democratic candidates is the only way to eliminate arch-crooks from city government, the Shattuck-Forbes-Lund advice is correct. But in a year when Republicans might have won several seats on the Council it amounts to a sellout, one which will render the GOP impotent and futureless...
Granted, the prospects for the Boston Republican Party are not bright as to power or future, but this is scant justification for steadfastly going backwards. No matter how honest an administration is at any point in time, the one-party system engendered by such a sellout is automatically dangerous. A system abhorred by democrats since the beginning of this nation, it produces corruption and irresponsibility in governments originally pure. For all of their sincere and intelligent civic mindedness, the prominent Republicans must bear a share of responsibility in this matter...