Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tracked down in Venice by frantic transatlantic phone calls, holidaying Soprano Anna Moffo, 26, jetted home posthaste to take over from ailing Australian Joan Sutherland in the San Francisco Opera's opening-night performance of Lucia di Lammermoor. Delighted by her rapid rise in what she describes as "dog eat dog" divasville, the handsome, Pennsylvania-born singer was less than delighted with the fast flight, exhaustedly proclaimed: "I'm violently against the jet-and-taxi age; the prima donna of 50 years ago had it much better with the slow boat and the horse and buggy...
...dependable Darlene Hard of Montebello, Calif., the U.S. national amateur tennis championships would have been a complete misnomer. The only American to get past the quarterfinals, Darlene beat Britain's Ann Haydon at Forest Hills, N.Y., 6-3, 6-4, for her second straight title. In an all-Australian men's final, the fifth in six years, Roy Emerson pulled a major upset, routed top-seeded Rod Laver...
...Inevitably, there was a divergence of thought. To Pulitzer Prizewinning Historian Allan Nevins, the U.S., in determining its foreign policy, has not paid sufficient attention to "reasonable" overseas reaction. "The U.S.," he says, "is now the leader of the free world. With this leadership rests a great responsibility. Remember, Australian boys. South African boys, Israeli boys may die as a result of the actions we take. This is a great partnership, and we are not by any means running a foreign policy for ourselves alone." Editor-Publisher Barry Bingham of the Louisville Courier-Journal emphatically agrees. "It is terribly important...
Tourists were quick to note that the riot was strictly a native affair; no one seemed mad at the white population of Rabaul. "My friends will be green with envy," said an Australian woman as she posed in the middle of a crowd of weapon-waving natives. But the Sydney Morning Herald took a less lighthearted view. "This outburst of savagery," said an irate editorial, "should provide a convincing answer to those members of the United Nations Trustee Council who last month voted for immediate independence for Papua and New Guinea...
...dispute was touched off by Australian-born Conductor Denis Vaughan. While studying Italian opera in Italy, Vaughan, 34, was struck by the variations between different printed editions of Puccini's operas. He visited Ricordi, turned his attention to Verdi and began comparing printed scores with manuscripts. Eventually, Ricordi officials confiscated Vaughan's notes and banned him from the archives, but not before he had made some surprising discoveries: there are 27,000 errors in printed versions of Falstaff, 8,000 in the Requiem, 18,000 in Tosca. Examples, from Falstaff...