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This company could very easily give us the 30 or 40 performances of nine Wagner operas we used to have every season, and, judging from the attendance at the token performances we get now, people would come to hear them. There is only one reason for the current decline in the popularity of Wagner-Rudolf Bing...
...fulfillment. In both South and North, public officials found all sorts of ways to delay, avoid or simply ignore implementation of the Supreme Court's order. Dashed to the ground, Negro hopes arose once more in 1957, when President Eisenhower ordered federal troops into Little Rock to enforce token high school integration...
Willis meets the Negroes' complaints with what a federal judge last year labeled "benign indifference." Confronted with Negro demands for a loosening of the neighborhood-school pattern, Willis put forward a token transfer plan under which a total of only 32 children switched to other schools. Willis argues that he is not interested in maintaining segregation but only in preserving the concept of the neighborhood school. "I'm an educator, not a social worker," he says. "I don't go around counting Negroes, Indians, Hindus or any other group." When a delegation of N.A.A.C.P. leaders from...
...been a good year for widows and orphans - and the other millions of Americans who regularly look in their mails for that tangible token of people's capitalism: the dividend check. With corporate profits running at record highs, the U.S.'s 17 million stockholders have watched expectantly to see what firms would share their prosperity by increasing dividends. Last week's cliffhanger was giant A.T. & T., which kept 2,200,000 shareholders agonizing while its 18 directors debated behind closed doors whether to raise the 900 quarterly dividend of the world's largest utility...
...occasional humorous lines, rather than slyly relishing them. The pages of exposition Shaw wrote on the natural attraction of the sexes and the dream of the superman, an unobtainable man of contemplation, a force without form, became just inanimate talk lacking much meaning. Don Juan receives only token opposition from his companions as he argues for the superman and rejects woman, and he rushes through his case without conviction and expression. At times it appeared that Kerr's primary goal was remembering his lines...