Word: attendants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...general German mourning over the assassination of President Kennedy could cancel only a single night's perform ance. Tickets sold quickly for as much as $125 a performance, and though a feeble Meistersinger drew grouchy reactions from the press, the patrons of opera who could afford to attend found the experience a joy reminiscent of la belle epoque...
...Harvard professor. A few have even had the gall to mention--or, rather, whisper--the name of John Kenneth Galbraith. But that is patently ridiculous. Harvard professors are far too intellectual and have too many hour exams to mark, government officials to consult, and ambassadorial duties to attend to, to have the inclination or the time to write facetous fiction...
...thank God I was able to transfer my average son from a public high school to a fine private school in New York City. The encouragement and attention given there has made him anxious and able to attend a fine college...
...hostage in exchange for imprisoned Confederate troops, but as his plot disintegrated he decided on murder instead, and a number of the others withdrew. Booth nervously bided his time until he could seize a dramatic moment. He chose the night of April 14, 1865 when Lincoln was to attend a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater in Washington. Booth visited the presidential box-No. 7-a few hours before curtain time, saw that the lock on its door was broken and cut a small peephole through the wood...
...event, there is little time for politics. Entrance exams are stiff and scholarship pressures great. "If a student refuses to submit to our discipline," says Antonio Pinilla, rector of the Catholic-influenced University of Lima, "we expel him." At Catholic U. in Buenos Aires, students must attend at least 75% of the lectures-or get out. A student at Andrés Bello in Caracas must pass every subject. If he flunks one, he is allowed two makeup exams; failing these, he is through...