Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everyone came to see and to be seen. All the celebrities sat in their appointed places, reaping their expected applause as they entered. Onstage was a production by America's most flamboyant serious musician, Leonard Bernstein, who had written Mass and equipped the liturgy with a bold array of theatrical trimmings (see Music). But the audience was almost as big a show...
Itinerant buck passers, including some 4,000,000 Americans living and vacationing abroad, faced a confusing array of exchange rates. Early in the week, the London Hilton was gouging its guests $2.75 for the pound, while the American Express office in that city was gamely taking traveler's checks at the official rate of $2.42. A few rapacious landladies at London bed-and-breakfast lodgings were squeezing $3 to the pound out of gullible visitors. Tourists did not know what their dollars would be worth the next minute, or in the next country. From Canada to Japan, some merchants...
...this season the thrills and techniques are there in flourishing array. It is Cincinnati Catcher Johnny Bench loosing one of his rocket-like throws to second. It is Montreal Rightfielder Rusty Staub making a sliding, onehanded catch. It is Yankee Centerfielder Bobby Murcer bowling over the catcher at home plate. It is Atlanta Leftfielder Ralph Garr running out from under his hat as he steals yet another base. It is New York Mets Shortstop Bud Harrelson pirouetting over second base to begin a double play. It is Pittsburgh Leftfielder Willie Stargell pounding a thunderous drive. It is Kansas City Royals...
...their ultimate skill. Latest to try is Leonard Bernstein, who had already set a Hebrew prayer for the dead (Kaddish) to music in his third symphony. By all accounts, his trip through the Roman Catholic liturgy will be something to see as well as hear. Along with the usual array of orchestra, choir and soloists, the Alvin Ailey dance company will appear before scenery by Oliver Smith. "It is an entirely new concept," says Bernstein, but he refuses to give many details. "I don't want to take away any of the fun." Fun or not, the faithful will...
...cult goes back to the mid-19th century, when Russian explorers and Christian missionaries arrived in New Guinea with a dazzling array of possessions. It really took hold during World War II, when all manner of amazing cargo came from the skies, dangling under American parachutes or carried to earth by huge silver birds...