Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From Cabinet officer to clerk, some 2,700 people filled all the seats in the vast Kennedy Center Concert Hall for a sing-in of Handel's Messiah. The event is regarded as the ultimate offspring of a city that runs on committee hearings, conferences and massed voices of protest or praise. Many of the participants sang off key, of course. But they sang in a singleness of spirit...
When he flies to Holland this month or next, Willebrands will find that Simonis' once embattled diocese has calmed down, but Gijsen's domain-where a poll shortly after his appointment showed that a vast majority of priests opposed their new bishop-is as tense as ever. In Holland some married priests continue to wink at Vatican rules and act as ministers in liberal parishes. Attendance at Mass has plummeted 50% in a decade, and in 1973 only seven diocesan priests were ordained. Willebrands has ranked high in speculation on candidates to succeed Paul...
...signs of exhaustion. Only nine years ago, the Rolling Stones had trouble getting Let's Spend the Night Together on the air. But that was before radio became the billion-dollar record industry's top sales force. Once dormant FM stations now compete for AM's vast audience, who are mostly disc-hungry teen-agers with money to burn. Orgasmic rock, which flourishes on singles, does not outsell everything else; the top records are soft, romantic rock albums. But when a company wants to launch an unknown or bolster a flagging group, the trick is to slip...
...feel is essential," he is understating the case. In fact, the musicians do not dispute him. Both sides agree that outside help is the only true, long-range solution to the Met's problems. A six-month New York repertory season with four or five new productions presents vast problems. But most of the Met's ills are not that different from those of other opera houses-just bigger. The Met spends more per year ($3.8 million) on the maintenance of the house than the Seattle Opera does on everything. The Met has been able to raise...
...most frustrating fixture of all, in Kira's view, is the tub-shower. "The only substantive reason for taking a tub bath is to relax," he maintains, "and yet it is precisely this that the vast majority of tubs have not permitted the user to do." The tub should be longer (6 ft., v. the standard 5 ft.) and wider, have a contoured back to fit the curvature of the spine, a comfortable place to sit while foot washing and shampooing, and a hand spray for rinsing. Showers should be larger, have continuous wrap-around grab-bars and different...