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In fact, opera attendance in Italy has slipped off by more than 30% in the past 15 years. At the core of the problem is a serious deficiency in young talent. Time was when there were as many first-rate young singers in Italy as pigeons in Piazza del Duomo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Wanted: Real Pasta | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

Scowls at Style. Last week, to the surprise of unflamboyant automen, American Motors' board elected Evans as chairman. He succeeded Richard E. Cross, who became chairman of the executive committee in order to devote more time to his Detroit law practice. A.M.C.'s crusty Roy Abernethy remained as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executives: American Motors' New Gospel | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

While other undergraduate organizations produce plays or publish journals, the members of Harvard's 11 Final Clubs devote their energies to maintaining a refuge from such endeavors. For the more conscientious members of the more conscientious members of the more prestigious clubs, it can turn into a full-time occupation...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: College's Final Clubs Enjoy Secluded Life In a World that Pays Little Attention to Them | 6/16/1966 | See Source »

A curiosity of the Final Club system is that the more prestigious the club, the more it isolates the individual member from the rest of Harvard. A student elected to the Porcellian Club--and therefore presumably among the most popular of his class--will devote more of his time and...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: College's Final Clubs Enjoy Secluded Life In a World that Pays Little Attention to Them | 6/16/1966 | See Source »

In high school talented athletes devote almost all their time to sports without warping their school life. It takes a lot more effort to excel at the intercollegiate level, and yet at the same time, with all Harvard's institutional activity, the athlete wants to spend less, not more, time...

Author: By Boisfouillet JONES Jr., | Title: THE SENIOR SLUMP: Upperclassmen Fade Away in Athletics | 6/16/1966 | See Source »

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