Word: anna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divorced. Sammy Davis Jr., 33, supercharged Negro entertainer, cinemactor (Anna Lucasta) and Broadway star (Mr. Wonderful); by Loray White Davis, 24. nightclub singer; after 15 months of marriage, no children; in Las Vegas...
...sweetly melancholy string sextet that serves as an overture; the delicately interlaced trio in which Musician, Poet and Countess comment on the Poet's sonnet; the Countess' hushed mirror monologue at the close, with its spun-silver vocal tracery. The performers-notably sopranos Elizabeth Schwarzkopf and Anna Moffo, baritones Hans Hotter and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau-sing superbly under Conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch. In its flashing orchestral coloration and its soaring vocal lines, Capriccio is an echo of some of the great works of Strauss's youth. At its dress rehearsal the 78-year-old composer said...
...ANNA MAE GAGNIER COUMBOURAS Springfield, Mass...
...Anna's inefficiencies-her forgetfulness about roll call, her chaotic classroom-are only surface disabilities. Absorbed in the agony of infant minds expanding under pressure, she is less interested in taming her Maoris than in finding the key to these hearts as virgin as her body. She becomes convinced that the words the youngsters respond to are not those in the pap-filled children's books but the ones drawn from fear and sex-from the vital reservoirs of life. Kiss, ghost, butcher, police, fight, jail-shown such words, the most stubborn of the nonlearners read and write...
...Anna Vorontosov is a major literary creation, a woman forever leaping to the barricades against mediocrity. The joy of teaching has seldom been more beautifully described than in this book. It seems only right-and not melodramatic-that Paul, a fellow teacher who respects neither the minds nor the bodies of his pupils, should blow out his brains. It is Author Ashton-Warner's view that teaching is a most dangerous activity, particularly at the level where the untutored five-year-old first collides with the civilized world. They may seem adorable infants now, but they are the whores...