Word: stephen
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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When Opera Midwest burst onto the music scene two years ago with a glittering production of Verdi's La Traviata, the Evanston, Ill., company was regarded as something of a musical mystery. Its general manager and financial "angel," Stephen Griffeth, had been able to conjure up a first-season budget of $400,000, a stunning amount for a group of virtual unknowns. Its star soprano was Griffeth's wife, Myra Cordell, a Northwestern University voice graduate. The music director was a former security guard who had conducted a children's choir in West Germany. Even Griffeth...
...October: "Do not give in, for once you do give in, you will not rise back for a long time. Indeed, we cannot surrender, for those who will follow us will say, 'The were so close, and they failed.' History would not absolve us then." - By Stephen Smith. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof and Barry Kalb/Warsaw
...Stephen Smith. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof and Barry Kalb/Warsaw
...poet and his voice to emerge naturally out of the biographical narrative. Whenever Kaplan does choose to intervene, he enhances his portrait with appropriate comparisions, or soft-spoken but astute analysis. In one case, Kaplan contrasts a friendship between Whitman and an intimate acquaintance, Peter Doyle, to Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in the cabmen's shelter in Ulysses, and Nathanial West's own "Peter Doyle" holding hands with Miss Lonely hearts at a speakeasy...
...alleged leaders of the group are George Osserman and Paul Garfinkle, a pair of freewheeling tax attorneys, along with Irwin Meyer and Stephen Friedman, two producers of the hit Broadway musical Annie. According to federal investigators, the four built a tax-shelter empire selling interests not only in American coal but also in distribution rights to European films and a Namibian diamond mine. They funneled investment money through a string of paper corporations with headquarters in the U.S., and such offshore havens as the Cayman Islands and Curaçao. Although the current charges concern only the coal caper, which...