Word: christopher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grandiose and wildly varied. Engagement is a kind of Caribbean Aida set in what is now Haiti during the black natives' overthrow of the French colonists at the turn of the 19th century. The heroine is the mulatto Jeanne, who falls in love with the French officer Christoph, though her revolutionist mother Bobokan is plotting his death. At the end, Jeanne is killed by Christoph, who mistakes her attempt to help him for treachery...
...idiomatic performance that drew the most from Egk's acrobatic orchestral score and made the blues passages seem natural, less like interludes. As Jeanne, Newcomer Barbara Hendricks from Little Rock, Ark., displayed a ravishing lyric soprano voice. Karl Brock not only handled the rigorous tenor lead role of Christoph with a convincing mixture of despair and bravado but also produced a splendid English translation of Egk's German libretto...
Vulnerable Forces. Nonetheless, Christoph Bertram, assistant director of the highly respected Institute for Strategic Studies in London, predicts that if the current Soviet technical development continues and no defense is found, "all U.S. land-based missile forces would be highly vulnerable by the end of the decade." One alternative would be to abandon land-based missile systems altogether?a step that has been suggested by both the Federation of American Scientists and analysts at the Brookings Institution. The idea is also supported by Fred C. Ikle, the chief of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Such a change would...
...spiritual. French Jesuit Jacques Marquette paddled down the Mississippi in the first European expedition to explore that river. Brother Jiri Kamel, a Moravian botanist at the Jesuits' College of Manila in the 17th century, gave Europe the camellia. A German mathematician and astronomer of the Society of Jesus, Christoph Klau, contributed to the Gregorian calendar and gave his Latinized name, Clavius, to a lunar crater that he discovered...
White Ring is a complex of four villages (Lech, Zürs, St. Anton and St. Christoph) linked by lifts. Besides visiting all four, serious skiers can sample everything from the vertiginous Kandahar run to the gentle lower Krieger-horn, plus liberal helpings of Gemütlichkelt. Dances get under way in larger hotels at 5 p.m. A week's stay: around...