Word: summer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operas that the Metropolitan or New York City operas present, and to concentrate instead on "brand-new works or very, very old ones." He hired young singing talent, backed it up with topflight coaches and conductors, among them, Eduard van Reinum, Leopold Stokowski, Igor Markevitch. Although the festival, summer after summer, earned more than its share of critical huzzahs, it attracted only moderate crowds, had to be abandoned altogether last summer, when the festival tent was wrecked in a tearing summer squall during the American premiere of Murder in the Cathedral...
...tent was jammed to capacity, and the programs included such stimulating fare as a full-stage production of Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos and a production of Stravinsky's stately Oedipus Rex, conducted by Stokowski. Impresario Forest, who still clips profitable pharmaceutical coupons, thinks that in another summer or so the festival will pay its own way. Meantime, he is angling for a new audience: the passengers on incoming foreign liners, who will be briefed on the festival's offerings before the boat touches the pier...
...monsoon rains swept across India, dousing the furnace heat of early summer, 35 million young Indians jammed back into the nation's schools for another year, nearly a million of them under the academic umbrellas of India's-38 huge, state-supported universities. And louder than ever rose the cries of frustration from thousands of rejected university applicants and their anxious parents...
...most of Blue Denim will not quite wash. All the good intentions of Producer Charles Brackett fail to keep the picture from looking like a rerun of an old Studio One Summer Theater. It is too often stilted, static, unreal, and riddled with tasteless jokes and cliches that would embarrass Helen Trent. It is also awkwardly resolved: the play ended with the girl surviving the abortion-and only then did the walls of noncommunication tumble -but the movie tacks on a climactic chase in the night, in which the boy's father snatches the girl from danger, then gives...
...believable that the reader is persuaded to accept the whole bag of outrageous melodrama: hanky-panky with a million-dollar will, baffling telephone calls in the middle of the night, mysterious footprints on the terrace, the fatal mugging of a key suspect, pursuit by a killer through a raging summer storm. Deserving of Favorite Sleuth status: Detective Nathan Shapiro of Homicide. Manhattan West, a shambling, sad-eyed man who suspects that he is not really up to his job and ought to be pounding a beat in Brooklyn. Shapiro asks what seem to be all the wrong questions...