Word: afterward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left--restoring furniture for re-use in the Houses. Below, a maid cleans rooms in Lowell House. This is the last year that Lowell will be cleaned by human hands; the other Houses will also be awarded "mechanized units" soon afterward...
Quick on the Trigger. At 6 o'clock Easter morning, the three children rose to inspect Easter baskets and search for eggs in the house and later in the woods behind the presidential cottage. After breakfast, the grownups, dressed in their Easter finest, went to church. Afterward, the President laid the cornerstone for a new church building. A building contractor in the crowd commented on his dexterity with the silver trowel. "I used to do it on the farm," Ike explained with a grin...
...although his mother was raised in Peoria), but always knew he wanted to write an "American" opera. A dozen years ago, he read Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a prose poem about the hardscrabble South by James Agee, with photographs by Walker Evans. Copland found it inspiring, afterward showed it to his librettist, Poet Horace Everett,* who was struck by the photographs of serefaced farmers and their families. Everett transferred the setting from the South to Kansas and finished the libretto two years...
...flee Rome. He found refuge at Malta, where he painted a portrait of the Grand Master and was rewarded with a knighthood. But then he assaulted a fellow knight and was imprisoned. He escaped, made his way to Tuscany, was arrested for a crime he had not committed. Soon afterward, he died of fever. He was then...
...audience gave Figlia sufferance while clapping up seven enthusiastic curtain calls for the cast itself. Afterward, exhausted but unfazed by the prospect of mixed reviews, Mezzo Stevens stood up stoutly for the opera. "It has a lot of melody," she said. "I was very excited right from the start. Acting-wise it was wonderful for me. Besides, nobody could compare me with anybody...