Word: alicia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scenario writer in all of Hollywood could have handled the scene better. More than 200 guests were clustered around the pool at California Governor Ronald Reagan's home in Sacramento. Suddenly, little Alicia Berry, the seven-year-old daughter of one of the Governor's employees, slipped and fell into the pool. Out of the crowd darted none other than the former movie star himself. Fully clothed, Reagan dived into the pool and returned the sputtering child to her mother. Said Reagan, who spent seven summers as a lifeguard in his childhood home, Dixon, Ill.: "I never take...
...about food stamps? the women were asked. "More trouble than they're worth," answered Molly. On the days they are issued, stores jack up prices. Besides, not enough are passed out each month. "By the eleventh and 25th of each month," said Alicia Escalante, an attractive Mexican-American with five children, "we are forced to feed our families rice, beans and other starches. Hidden hunger and periodic starvation appear in at least half the families of our community...
...Conductor Seiji Ozawa. The long season (June 27 through Sept. 15) is made up of orchestral and chamber concerts, a short visit by the New York City Ballet, Daniel Barenboim's English Chamber Orchestra, a jazz-folk program and a wide selection of guest artists, including Pianists Alicia de Larrocha, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Leon Fleisher, Alexis Weissenberg and others of that caliber...
...Alicia was only four at the time, but her reaction was as perspicacious as it was prophetic. Granados, who turned out a substantial body of operas, songs and other kinds of music, was above all a composer for the piano. He blended an instinctive Spanish flavor with French impressionism and the Chopin-Liszt tradition to produce a heady and original style, flowing with romantic feeling yet tempered and refined by elegant workmanship. His six-part suite, Goyescas, which powerfully evokes the gaudy, sensual world of Goya's paintings and tapestries, stands with Albe-niz' Iberia at the pinnacle...
Glowing Fabric. Alicia de Larrocha, now 44 and a superb concert pianist, never has freed herself from Granados' music. Instead, she has become its foremost interpreter, and last week, at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, she saluted the 100th anniversary of his birth with an all-Granados program...