Word: later
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Perhaps because of debut stresses, the voice also had its marked drawbacks; at times it sounded strained, took on a steely glitter when more opulent warmth was called for. Apparently a more severe critic of herself than some of Manhattan's reviewers, Soprano Nilsson said later: "After the first act I was just physically tired, and my throat was dry. The first act is as hard as all of Aida...
...Bernstein put such distinguished nonprofessionals on his program? "Christmas family spirit," said Lenny. Each man had the background to make the party a serious success. Manager Moseley studied piano under famed Teacher Olga Samaroff, was a fellow student of Leonard Bernstein at Tanglewood in 1941. Later, Moseley spent five years (1950-55) as director of the School of Music at the University of Oklahoma. Sugar Baron Keiser, Harvard '27, won a Juilliard scholarship after graduation, studied piano under Ernest Hutcheson before he took over the family business (Cuban-American Sugar Co.). Keiser still gives concerts near his home...
...Often the downgrading of hope was not by accident but by design. Most of the great Greeks held that fate was unchangeable, so hope was an illusion and therefore evil. To Aeschylus it was "the food of exiles," and to Euripides, "man's curse." And 2,500 years later Nietzsche echoed: "Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment...
Died. Edna Wallace Hopper, about 85, tiny (5 ft., 83 lbs.) turn-of-the-century musical star (The Girl I Left Behind Me, Floradora) who devoted her later years to preserving her youthful looks; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. When age finally forced her to leave the stage in 1920, Edna Hopper underwent a series of face-lifting operations, had a movie made of one of them, which she took on a lecture tour around the country. The lecture, which included a personal demonstration of how to take a bath properly, invariably played to a full house (women only), swelled sales...
...excellent measure is autos. U.S. Businessman Arthur Watson, boss of IBM World Trade Corp., found the change astounding. Eleven years ago the manager of IBM's big plant at Essonnes, France asked Watson for permission to build a shed to house the workers' bicycles; two years later he said he needed to enlarge the shed to accommodate all the motorcycles. "Next time I was there," says Watson, "our manager explained that they were having to put blacktop on one of the fields; we needed the space for the workers' cars...