Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Audit in Paradise. The real issue was not top talent or a top house like La Scala. Virtually all opera companies outside the U.S. are publicly subsidized (London's Covent Garden gets $700,000 annually). La Scala's $1,200,000 subsidy is not out of line considering its box-office take of $2,000,000 and its ambitious program: 180 annual performances of 30 different operas, including eight new productions and four premiered works, plus concerts and ballets. More extravagant was the $1,200,000 subsidy to the Rome Opera in 1955, when it took in only...
...Roman Catholic, a capitalist of the old school, and a man who believes that U.S. education has long since gone to the dogs. When his own ten children were growing up, he insisted that each become trilingual and that all take piano lessons whether they had any talent or not. Once in Paris he rented a house, installed a French tutor on the fourth floor, a Latin tutor on the third, an English tutor on the second and a music teacher on the first. In their various colleges, all but one non-Catholic, the young Buckleys did well academically. They...
...conference, which is aimed at graduate students interested in careers in teaching, will also include a talk by Associate Dean Shaplin on "Why Study Education?" and a panel discussion moderated by President Wilbur K. Jordan of Radcliffe on "American Schools and Selectivity: The Great Talent Hunt...
Engle wrote, "It is in the arts, in fact, that the Big Ten can rub that uplifted Ivy League nose in the poison ivy." He further claimed that the Big Ten's "flourishing orchestras are impossible at universities like Princeton and Harvard, which lack the breadth of talent and the broad integration of music into the curriculum...
...nothing because her beer is terrible, and so Margery alters her plans. She determines to become a saint, an ambition which is fulfilled after she performs the accredited miracle of surviving unscathed the collapse of a church. Thus far the playwright is on safe ground. He exhibits a talent for writing witty dialogue, and his light tone wobbles only once or twice when he essays into the composition of poetry...