Word: users
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...Grundy sports a Southern accent. But even Laurents' "The weak shall inherit the earth" echoes A Woman's famous "The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong." And where Wilde was almost the last user of the classic aside, Laurents has adopted its chic, flip descendant, the crack or comment flung straight at the audience...
Last week the Met gratefully honored the guild and Mrs. Belmont. Onstage, Barry Morell, Dorothy Kirsten, Leonie Rysanek, Zinka Milanov sang arias from L'Africaine, Louise, Tannhäuser, Bohème, supported by the Met orchestra, chorus and ballet, while Mrs. Belmont, 80, sat in the center box, as firmly as ever part of the Met scene. During intermission. General Manager Rudolf Bing presented to Mrs. Belmont a silver tray with the engraved signatures of the board members and guild staff...
...familiar sound. Outraged because the U.S. refuses to share his conviction that Cam bodia is in constant danger of invasion from neighboring Thailand and South Viet Nam, Sihanouk complains that many of the weapons the U.S. has furnished his 28,000-man Cambodian army are "more dangerous for the user than for the enemy." On one occasion last year, he publicly accused Allen Dulles' CIA of conspiring to unseat his regime...
...born Georg Solti, 47, now musical director of the excellent Frankfurt Opera. Solti has guest-conducted most major U.S. orchestras, built a reputation in Europe as a fine interpreter of Mozart and Wagner, next season will make his debut at the Metropolitan Opera conducting a revival of Tannhäuser. But his main enthusiasm, he has said, is symphonic conducting, particularly in the U.S. Says he: "This is the country of the future. And it has a growing music tradition. I like something that is building...
...delighted," says one Canadian telemeter user, H. W. Wilcox. "We used to go to the movies about twice a year. Now we go twice a week and have all the comforts of home." Rare is the Etobicoke citizen who disagrees. Yet, despite the obvious novelty of the electronic gimmick, local moviehouses so far report no drop in attendance. And no one yet has reported a wayward child's spending too much money for shows the family cannot afford-a favorite prediction of pay TV opponents...