Word: annas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could two complete casts be mustered that would boast such operatic deities as Sopranos Renata Tebaldi and Leontyne Price, Tenors Richard Tucker and Franco Corelli, Baritones Robert Merrill and Tito Gobbi, Bassos Cesare Siepi and Nicolai Ghiaurov-not to mention a bevy of most attractive younger sopranos such as Anna Moffo, Teresa Stratas and Mirella Freni...
Slum Child. But the author of Anna of the Five Towns, The Old Wives' Tale, the Clayhanger trilogy and Ricey-man Steps was also a superb storyteller and a literary innovator, a Dickens shorn of romanticism. By imposing on the sentimental Edwardian fabric the realistic techniques he had absorbed from such French masters as Goncourt, Flaubert, Maupassant and Turgenev (whom he insisted on calling French because it was in that language that he read him), Bennett became the first popular novelist of his time to tell of the actual lives of recognizable people in words that ordinary readers could...
...know I do! But, honestly, you ought to have six weeks straight at Campo." Eleanor stayed, but she could hardly have been reassured when F.D.R. candidly wrote her of Potomac cruises with Lucy and others. By the time they arrived in Washington, the Roosevelts already had three children, Anna, 7, James, 5, and Elliott, 3. Franklin Jr. was born in 1914, and their last child, John...
...exposure. (One rationale for not using St. Matthew's, of course, is that it would have evoked memories of John Kennedy's funeral.) Six of the daughters of Presidents who have become brides said their vows in the White House itself, while the seventh, F.D.R.'s Anna, was married inconspicuously in New York...
...Algernon Charles Frederick Sartoris came from a wealthy British family; Alice Roosevelt's Nicholas Longworth was a Representative who later became House Speaker; Jessie Wilson's was Francis Bowes Sayre, a lawyer; Eleanor Wilson's was William Gibbs McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury; and Anna Roosevelt's second husband was John Boet-tiger, a newspaper correspondent. *Whereby draft-eligible men may fulfill their military obligations by serving a few months on active duty and then participating in training sessions and summer encampments for a total of six years. During that time, their units may be mobilized...