Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tenor Campanini's observation has been echoed by many a singer since. The Met has nevertheless attracted more first-rate stars than any other of the world's great opera houses. This week the house celebrates its 75th anniversary with a nostalgic birthday review (lantern slides and ancient recordings assembled by the Metropolitan Opera Guild) of some of its finest achievements. The yellow brick house was built (in 1883) at a cost of $1,732,478.71, principally as a showcase for New York society (the impresario of the older, posher Academy of Music referred...
...Conn., son of a well-to-do tobacco raiser, Joe Alsop idled, read and ate his way through adolescence. Groton and Harvard, emerging a 5 ft. 9 in., 245-Ib. magna cum laude dandy addicted to French cuffs and French pastry, Proust, Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and the decay of ancient civilizations-Egypt, the Mayans, Greece and Rome. By then it was clear that Joe had no real interest in the law, which was the career his parents had decided on, and he was dispatched to the New York Herald Tribune...
...chosen Pope, not to surrender any of the Vatican's independence. Restrictions of the Camerlengo's authority are severe; with the heads of the Sacred Congregations, he superintends whatever Vatican business may not be postponed but may not make major decisions. Sign of his office: an umbrella, ancient Oriental symbol of power, once used to represent the papacy in general...
...problems of old age have been be clouded by misconceptions since ancient times. The psalmist who hymned "The days of our years are threescore years and ten" knew nothing of modern vital statistics; the average life expectancy of an Israelite baby in David's kingdom was probably no more than 30 years. Not until the individual had weathered all the hazards of gestation, birth, childhood illnesses, diseases such as tuberculosis and pneumonia could he expect to reach threescore...
Pother Panchali (Edward Harrison). One day in 1952, a 31-year-old commercial artist in Calcutta went down to the pawnshop with his wife's jewels. Then he rented an ancient Wall camera, and on the first fine Sunday after that, he rounded up a few actor friends, piled them into a taxi, and headed upcountry to a picturesque village he knew. There and thereabouts, heedless of the fact that he had never shot a foot of film in his life, Satyajit Ray (pronounced Sawt-yaw-jit Rye) plugged away at his movie project whenever...