Word: flops
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Fiasco. Not till the war came did they try their hand at mass production. Near Norfolk, Va. they laid long, roadlike strips of concrete for foundations, then erected walls and roofs over them to form 1,600 squat houses that were little more than shacks. The development was a flop and about 230 of the units are now empty. More successful were 757 houses the Levitts built in Norfolk for the Navy. This success convinced them that low-priced houses could be profitably mass-produced. But the idea was temporarily shelved in 1943, when Bill Levitt joined the Seabees...
Whitsuntide came & went, and the U.S. and its Allies this week were still in Berlin. The huge Communist youth demonstration went off in a driving rain, a sodden flop. After the captains and the kids departed, Berlin's otherwise neat and well-kept ruins were littered with a mass of Communist leaflets; otherwise nothing much had changed. There could be no doubt that the Reds had trapped themselves into a severe propaganda defeat...
...Flop Over. But 20 miles down from Albany the river roughened and Augie's gamble began to pay off. By Poughkeepsie, the halfway mark, his boat was bouncing clean out of the water every 20 seconds or so ("I could hear that screw screaming"). His forward gas tank broke loose, and he had to slow down for 20 minutes while he hand-pumped gas into his after tank. But he kept going while the others were having troubles too ("I saw one boat spin right up on its tail and flop over...
...opera citadel, the Metropolitan. For one thing he had his fling at the Met before Broadway. His first opera, Amelia Goes to the Ball, composed when he was 25, was played for two seasons (seven performances) by the Met, and his third, The Island God, a flop, had four performances. He recalls the Met's productions with distaste: "For The Island God they dragged on some rocks that looked like the third act of Die Walkure." The Met's huge stage, ceremonial trappings and big voices demand a grander canvas than Menotti now chooses to paint his tight...
...Composer Benjamin Britten has had spectacular success in grand opera houses with his bigger and more traditional opera Peter Grimes, and his chamber operas Albert Herring and Let's Make an Opera are successful in Britain and Europe. His lone Broadway production, The Rape of Lucretia, was a flop...