Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...tempos were fast enough, but even so, it was a Don done in slow motion. Roberta had to take her first note against a Don (Baritone Paul Schoeffler) singing off-key; she hit it on the nose. Acting with confidence and pinpointing her coloratura targets in a clear, clean little voice, Roberta managed to win the biggest hand of the evening...
Rudi Bing himself had some matters that would bear sleeping on. He had done a bang-up job on his two new productions of Don Carlo and The Flying Dutchman (TIME, Nov. 20). But after a sleepwalking Don Giovanni (and a ragged Traviata two weeks ago), it was clear that some of the Met's old productions needed tuning...
...judges, always in full pursuit of the pack, the weeding-out process was partly simplified as some of the hounds got out of touch and ranged clear out of sight over the hills. Other hounds "babbled," i.e., bayed before the scent was picked up, and were promptly disqualified. Still others were thrown out for "loafing" (disinclination to hunt) and for "running cunning" (failing to work the proper trail...
...they were also getting in some licks for the 16,000 C.I.O. unionists who were on strike at A.T. & T.'s subsidiary, Western Electric. The strikers had been picketing A.T. & T. exchanges, trying to disrupt service and sometimes, as in Philadelphia, trading wallops with police who tried to clear the buildings...
...clear that the rebuilding of Harvard football is a long term proposition. It is also clear that any hopes for future varsity successes rest on each year's freshman squad. It was disturbing, therefore, to hear last week that the Yardling eleven, through the Union Committee, was protesting "the unnecessarily trying and demoralizing conditions" under which it was forced to play and practice...