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That was in 1957, and there has been no stopping since. Last week the Dallas Civic Opera celebrated its tenth anniversary with a season that is already 90% sold out. Kelly's winning formula: high-quality productions with big-name singers and the best young talent available. Highlight of the company's new production of Macbeth last week was the performance of Welsh Soprano Gwyneth Jones. A tall, flame-haired import from London's Covent Garden, she was a marvelously malevolent partner for Baritone Mario Zanasi as Macbeth, repeatedly thrilled the audience with her heroic, ringing voice...
...expressed my amazement, and he went on. "Look -- you can tell a lot from words. Do you know your Bible? You know where the Lord says that no bastard shall be allowed to enter the Kingdom of God unto the tenth generation? Well, we now know that the true meaning of the word bastard was mongrel, or race mixer. But do you see the people of this country paying any attention to the words...
Such admonitions have not prevented the suicide rate from rising. It is the tenth cause of death in the U.S.-in 1920 it ranked 22nd-and it is estimated that more than one in every 100 Americans now living have tried to kill themselves at one time or another. The overall rate is 10.8 suicides per 100,000. In the age group from 15 to 19, the rate is 4 per 100,000, up from 2.4 a decade ago, and is the third-ranking cause of death (after accidents and cancer). Among college students, presumably because of the stress...
...Rome, is to "walk 2,000 years into the past." The world is more familiar with what happened to neighboring Pompeii on the same day that Herculaneum died; erupting on Aug. 24, A.D. 79, Vesuvius buried Pompeii in a sudden fiery rain of stone and ash, entombing nearly one-tenth of its 20,000 citizens and inflicting terrible damage on the city. Herculaneum, however, was more fortunate. Granted time by the wind, which blew west toward Pompeii, nearly all of Herculaneum's 5,000 inhabitants were able to flee before the wall of hot lava and mud rolled down...
Baker finished tenth in the Heps two weeks ago, earning a place on the 12-man All-Ivy team along with Doug Hardin, Bob Stempson, and Jim Smith...