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...Some people who think we're a long way apart discover that we're pretty close when we meet," says Trainham. Next year the Baptists will have a good chance to discover just how close they really are. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the U.S. Baptist missionary movement, both conventions have scheduled their annual meetings for Atlantic City during the same week in May-their first joint session since...
Even for Italy, it was an extraordinary display of artistic temperament. The occasion had started as a concert performance of Verdi's // Corsaro in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth, and the cognoscenti were all there. The opera had not been performed in 109 years and for excellent reason: troubled by rheumatism and an attack of Weltschmerz brought on by a worrisome winter in Paris, Verdi dashed // Corsaro off in less than two months and immediately pronounced it beyond salvation...
Down on Your Knees. This year is the 150th anniversary of Wagner's birth, and Bayreuth Festival pilgrims whose health can stand it may see, in a single week, the complete Ring (14½ hours), Parsifal (4½ hours), Tristan and Isolde (4 hours) and Die Meistersinger (4½ hours). Among each night's full house are a dozen or so operatic masochists who attend every festival performance every year-an annual dose of 111 hours of straight Wagner swallowed in only 28 days. If this regime is not enough to cure them, there are museums that boast...
...statement that Lincoln refused bodyguards [May 10] is not entirely accurate. At least up to May 1863, my great-grandfather, Captain David Vincent Derickson, was in command of Company K, 150th Infantry Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers (the "Bucktails") and served as his personal bodyguard...
Theologian Karl Barth spent a week at PRINCETON as part of the 150th anniversary celebration of the university's Theological Seminary. Barth attacked Protestantism and other faiths for exaiting man as the center of humanistic religions...