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Duffy calls Bull-in-the-Ring. Blocking dummies are set up at the corners of a three-yard square. Dead center between the dummies, Captain Matsko crouches in position. A file of burly linemen faces him from scant yards away. "All right," Agase bellows, "let's drive him out of there...
Abrupt Departure. Outraged by the government's brazen persistence in illegality, mustachioed Enrico de Nicola, onetime (1946-48) Provisional President of Italy, made his countermove last week: he abruptly resigned as Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court. "The government," he declared angrily, "has shown scant appreciation of the court's work." Then, refusing to talk to anyone, De Nicola withdrew to his oleander-shrouded villa overlooking the Bay of Naples...
...goes Orpheus in the Underworld, Jacques Offenbach's delightful spoof of Greek mythology, presented in English by the New York City Opera Company last week. The stylishly scant scenery (including a tricky, tilted revolving stage) is handsome; the staging is often funny; and the music is as charming as it was 100 years ago. Under the firm and concise direction of Vienna-born Erich Leinsdorf, 44, who left the Rochester Philharmonic to become the City Center's new musical director, the brilliant score is beautifully played. The trouble with Orpheus is its new libretto, which seemed determined...
...cancer expert was quick to doubt that Dr. Ivy's 23 survivors had been, as claimed, in a hopeless stage of the disease to begin with, or that their survival had any medical significance: many patients with a variety of cancers have survived for unpredictably long times with scant treatment of any kind. Moreover, other doctors pointed out, several of the patients got other treatments (X rays, hormones or surgery) besides Krebiozen, and it was impossible to sort out the effects...
...once set up shop as a portrait painter. At first he borrowed poses and tony backgrounds from his step father's mezzotints, and tricks of color and modeling from his elders in Boston's portrait-painting fraternity. But he soon found he could go farther by paying scant attention to the modes and strict attention to his models. He thought nothing of spending 100 hours on a portrait, advanced as much by elbow grease as by genius. Early in his career he reached a pedestrian conclusion that lent wings to his art: he decided that his paintings were...