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Word: angeles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Planter's Son. Castro's father, Angel Castro, a penniless immigrant from the Spanish region of Galicia, had already worked hard and made plenty of money by the time Fidel was born in 1926. Fidel Castro grew up as the planter's son on a $500,000 sugar plantation at Mayari, 50 miles from Santiago. He was in love with guns from the time he fired his first .22, hunting in the mountains where he would one day return, an outlaw. From the age of eight he spent most of his time at a Roman Catholic boarding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: The Vengeful Visionary | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

...Darius' soldiers march on Belshazzar's court. The remainder of the play traces Daniel's betrayal by Darius' advisers, his escape from the lions' den, his final vision of the time when the "holy one comes/The most holy of the holy," and an angel announces "Christ is born." One of the play's engaging qualities is its childlike mixture of varying emotions: a scene of wanton rejoicing to the fluttering sound of recorders gives way to a mood of reverence, signified by the sweet-sounding psaltery, and again to the quiet, harp-punctuated anguish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Medieval Hit | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...fool the eye, emphasize the strangeness of the rest. Dali's title for this weird and serious effort: Quasi-grey picture which, closely seen, is an abstract one; seen from two metres is the Sistine Madonna of Raphael; and from fifteen metres is the ear of an angel measuring one metre and a half; which is painted with antimatter; therefore with pure energy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Dali News | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

Birgit Nilsson: Opera Arias (Angel). In her first American release, rising Swedish Soprano Nilsson sings selections from Wagner and Verdi in a big, flashing, vibrant voice long on power and drive, sometimes short on dramatic intensity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Dec. 1, 1958 | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

Vladimir Ashkenazy Plays Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Prokofiev (Angel). Russia's newest cultural export plays with ice-edged articulation and singing tone. The 21 -year-old pianist is at his best in Rachmaninoff's Variations on a Theme of Corelli, in which the keyboard sound swells and fades with the fitful ease of sunlight playing across water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Dec. 1, 1958 | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

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