Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twice within 20 hours last week, the Air Force sent Thor rockets roaring from their Cape Canaveral pads. The first, an Soft. Thor-Able version of the missile (fitted out with a Vanguard second stage), carried an intercontinental ballistic missile nose cone, soared 5,000 miles down range. Despite elaborate homing and signaling systems, the nose cone was not recovered, but telemetry data showed that it had successfully survived a hot ride through the atmosphere...
...past years the winners of the Met's annual regional auditions got a chance to sing on the radio. This year, with the Metropolitan auditions radio program off the air, they were brought to New York by the Met's National Council to compete on the great stage before judges and an audience. Each of the 15 contestants had a preliminary hearing before General Manager Rudolf Bing and his panel to decide what they should sing in the finals, then rehearsed under Conductor Kurt Adler. With that preparation, they walked onto the Meistersinger set (already in place...
...Philadelphia's arena last fortnight, Wrestler Antonino ("Dropkick") Rocca, weighing in at 228 lbs., squared off against John ("Adonis") Valentine, weighing 234 lbs. More than two miles away, at the Academy of Music, famed Soprano Renata ('Diva Serena") Tebaldi stepped to the front of the stage and sang Ah, spietata from Handel's Amadigi. As the evening wore on, a suave, white-tied figure kept scurrying back and forth between the two programs: Aurelio ("Ray") Fabiani, promoter of both wrestling and music, was hard at work on both sides of show-business history...
...stage were six nimble young men in dinner jackets, and strewed around them were more than a hundred percussion instruments-including a horse's jawbone, six water-buffalo bells, eight auto brake drums, a corrugated washboard and a set of bongo drums. When the conductor raised his baton, the young men moved on an assortment of weapons and started to flail away. The effect was like an explosion in a boiler factory. The occasion: an all-percussion concert at New York's Manhattan School of Music, under the direction of Veteran Percussionist Paul Price...
...there may be in such explanations, the fantasies of the television tube are perhaps most truly understood as shadows of a larger drama. The western is really the American morality play, in which Good and Evil, Spirit and Nature, Christian and Pagan fight to the finish on the vast stage of the unbroken prairie. The hero is a Galahad with a six-gun, a Perseus of the purple sage. In his saddlebags he carries a new mythology, an American Odyssey that is waiting for its Homer. And the theme of the epic, hidden beneath the circus glitter of the perennial...