Word: frankenstein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just a viewing of the universe as an "infinite series of identical and isolated fruit salads." He gave his students a thorough grounding in literature, art and history, brought to his campus such teachers as Composer Darius Milhaud, Author (The Friendly Persuasion) Jessamyn West and Music Critic Alfred Frankenstein. Since the career of the average woman, White argued, is to raise a family, why not prepare her for it while at the same time giving her the intellectual background to play her role creatively...
...Having performed a new work once." wrote the San Francisco Chronicle's able music critic, Alfred Frankenstein, "conductors disown it for good. Hence arises an infuriating paradox: the best way to kill a modern piece is to preside over its premiere...
...composers who get commissions for new works but not repeat performances, partly inspired the Ford Foundation last week to appropriate $315,000 for the commissioning, playing and repeat performances of new symphonic works, and the performances of ten contemporary U.S. operas (by the New York City Opera). Critic Frankenstein found the provision for symphonic performances insufficient. Briskly turning himself into a one-man foundation, he called on conductors to repeat works they had introduced during the last five years, offered a $100 prize for the conductor who repeated the most...
...names." You don't need a big bankroll, either; Werewolf cost less than $150,000 to produce, by last week had taken in a monstrous $1,700,000. Another Cohen production, being rushed onto film before other mon-stermakers start blood-and-ducktail thrillers: I Was a Teenage Frankenstein...
...source of great pride to the members of the Yale Dramatic Association. Indeed, the very nickname for the group, "Dramat," bears a ring that might testify to an infatuation with mechanical efficiency. To some of the visiting directors, however, the Isenour Board was something of a Frankenstein's Monster--it exhibited an alarming tendency to make the lights flicker and dim at the wrong time...