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Time was when Pittsburgh was a football and baseball city. The University of Pittsburgh Panthers under Coach Jock Sutherland were the terrors of the collegiate football world, and the Pittsburgh Pirates were perennial first-division players. Times have changed. Nowadays, with the Pirates in the depths* and the Panthers rebuilding...
-Nowadays, by derivation, Cumberland also means the wire-jumper used by some Haitians to bypass electric meters and thereby shortcut the bills from the U.S.-owned power company.
Once upon a time, record stores were as dignified as the free public library. Popular recordings were stacked in bins, and hardly anybody thought to dignify them by collecting them in albums. Nowadays, pop albums are almost as common as paperback novels. And more and more, they are packaged with...
But mid-season 1954 shows few signs of a real Wagner boom, either in the U.S. or abroad. The favorite operas, Lohengrin, Tannhduser and Tristan are lucky to get three or four performances a month at La Scala, Paris and London. The 13-hour Ring cycle (Rheingold, Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung...
Flowers Freeze. Lonely and embittered, he took to haunting Madrid's dingier coffeehouses. He gave a few lessons. Much of the rest of his time he spent writing pamphlets attacking modern dance. "The art of genuine flamenco is lost," he says. "Nowadays, male dancers look like grass hoppers or...