Word: work
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...melodic and elaborately embellished Handel work proved to be one of those baroque affairs full of knights, courtiers and disguised lovers, all involved in magical complications. (The 1735 libretto was taken from the famed Renaissance epic, Orlando Furioso, by Italian Poet Lodovico Ariosto.) The imaginative Dallas production made all this easier to take by treating the piece as a play within a play-a musical evening in the home of a nobleman of Handel's period, with the opera itself presented as an entertainment for the guests. The opulent, columned and chandeliered set had a revolving dais at stage...
...fine!" he would cry every time a big wave tossed the boat aloft. He drew on foot, on horseback and on trains, was outraged when the conductor would not hold the train long enough for him to complete a sketch: "Damn the fellow. He has no feeling!" His work was championed by such men as Critic John Ruskin and Painter Sir Thomas Lawrence and commanded top prices. But it was also called the worst "claptrap ever painted...
...died), is a soloist in the famed Mormon Tabernacle Choir. All the family adhere strictly to the Mormon regime of no coffee, tea or alcoholic beverage. One Brazilian jovially complained to Elder Smith last week: "The danger to the world today is not Communism, but Mormonism. You people work fast in our country with smiles and songs. Then you have lots of children, who study and get ahead of our kids. Then you get yourselves elected to government positions and boom! you pass a law banning coffee and Brazil falls flat on her face...
...poor Polish immigrants, Strucinski quit high school to work for Chicago meat packers, at 17 was convicted of burglary in Wisconsin and later for larceny in North Carolina. During World War II, while serving in the merchant marine, he was befriended by a literary-minded ship's officer who encouraged him to write. But when the war was over, Strucinski drifted back to crime, and for ten years was continually in trouble, for everything from mail theft to carrying a concealed weapon...
After revitalizing St. Louis' Washington University, Brookings served as Woodrow Wilson's price chief in World War I, and was appalled at the lack of trained people in Washington. In 1919 he went to work for the Institute for Government Research, later helped found the Institute of Economics and began a graduate school to train men for public service. In 1927 he merged all three organizations as the Brookings Institution, envisioned it as a supergraduate "capstone to the education al arch of the country." Passionately Objective. Brookings was never quite that under its scholarly first president, Harold...