Word: trios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conclusively proved that the promise of great opera lay elsewhere. Blind to their examples, Bizet wrote six or seven good numbers which have since become standards and filled out the rest of Carmen with tedium and theft. The Second Act quintet is bad imitation Mozart, the Third Act trio bad imitation Rossini, and Micaela's Air good imitation Meverbeer, which is just as bad. Carmen proves Bizet to be the Milton Berle of music...
...evening consists of a trio of one-acters, all set in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel. Each of the playlets concerns a middle-aged man (Scott) and woman (Stapleton) who are at the end of something rather than the beginning of anything. The underlying tone of much of the humor is that of middle-aged rue mocking itself, the slightly hysterical funmaking that springs less from high spirits than low morale...
There was nothing nostalgic about what happened in the ladies' luge competition: a clear case of cheating-and stupid cheating at that. Ranking first, second and fourth going into the final run, a trio of East German women tried for a little extra edge by illegally heating the runners of their sleds. They were caught and disqualified...
...advancement. But it also had far wider implications about how the Times is run and by whom. The paper has more editorial direction than most of the nation's dailies. Even so, it often appears to be a kind of symposium of independent correspondents. The Times's trio of top editors-Turner Catledge, Clifton Daniel and A. M. Rosenthal-have long wanted to assert more authority and central purpose, notably in regard to the Washington bureau...
Harvard's sophomore broad jump trio of Bob Galliers, Skip Hare, and John Avault will have their hands full with the Eli jumpers. Led by talented Calvin Hill, who has soared 25', Yale has four men who have done better than...