Word: procession
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Puritani takes place in Cromwell's England, where the Cavalier hero daringly dupes the Roundheads, but in the process is forced to abandon his betrothed, Elvira, who goes insane. Soprano Sutherland's triumph last week was that she made her audience overlook the opera's gothic absurdities and focus on its moments of real beauty, including Elvira's pre-wedding aria, "Son vergin vezzosa," and her splendid "Qui la voce sua soave," which introduces a mad scene every bit as effective as the more famous one in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. Her voice...
...items, will be put on display. And this month 22 new rooms at the Louvre will be opened up, after having been closed for 15 years for lack of funds Exulted France-Soir last week: "Ther is no more mystery at the Louvre. The Louvre is in the process of becoming a living museum." Sighed a relieved Curator Bazin: "The future beams more serene...
Bowles urges the colleges to consider even more radical reforms. He feels that colleges must swallow their pride and "unite in self-denying agreements"-or see the admissions system really break down. Among his ideas: ¶A single "clearing center" to process all applicants and find the right college for the right student from the beginning. Two such centers are already in operation, but they help only those students rejected by colleges of their choice. ¶ A series of cooperative committees formed by big colleges with similar goals and standards, to pick eleventh-graders. This might cut multiple applications from...
...Pennsylvania and its subsidiaries, said Perlman, are in the process of developing a huge rail complex. Eventually, he went on, there will be only two competitively balanced rail systems in the East, and the Central must be "an inte gral and important part of one of these systems." It expects to take part in any merger worked out by the B. & O. and the C. & O., and even to act "as the base" for such a merger. Merger talks between the Central and the two roads are "continuing," but Perlman wants to be in on the preliminaries...
...quiz shows, found the smell was far from rosy. But in happier days, when he was earning as much as $200,000 a year and had sold his shows to NBC for $1,000,000, he invested $50,000 in a small Manhattan chemical firm, the Fragrance Process Co. It was founded in 1952 by Alfred Neuwald, 64, a Hungarian-born chemist who used Barry's money to perfect a pellet to impregnate plastics with hundreds of different fragrances...