Word: avidly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...given his matched set of porcelain plates with splendid Winslow Homer paintings on them. There are books on Audubon and Thoreau yet to be distributed along the President's route; the Steuben prism that focuses its light on a golden eagle will be presented to King Khalid, an avid falconer, in Saudi Arabia...
Ralph and Dick knew their stuff. Avid readers of Marx and Mao, Lenin and Trotsky, they impressed Clayton Van Lydegraf with their grasp of revolutionary ideology. Lydegraf, 62, a Communist Party member since the 1930s, had founded the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee in San Francisco. Its aim: to serve as a recruiter and support organization for the Weather Underground, the supersecret group that was formed from,the most extreme elements of the '60s antiwar movement and is bent on fomenting violent revolution in the U.S. Though the Weather Underground is estimated to have only a few dozen hard-core...
Based on Wagner's own adaptation of medieval German legends, Tannhäuser opens in the magical mountain home of Venus, where one of the great orgies in opera is taking place. One avid participant is the minstrel Tannhäuser, who is found snuggled up to Venus herself. Tannhäuser, of course, spends the rest of the evening trying to atone for his sins. Of the two versions of the opera that exist today, Levine has wisely chosen the revision Wagner made for the Paris premiere in 1861. By that time Wagner had written Tristan and was a much more sophisticated...
...Fort Walton Beach, Fla.?at $75 a head for an advanced cooking class. Alain Chapel, whose three-star restaurant at Mionnay is one of France's finest, was the visiting chef at Manhattan's elegant Four Seasons restaurant for three weeks early this year, preparing meals for which avid diners paid $75 each (not including tax or tips...
...Cavalry and Regiment. You can meet an Illinois Gov. James Thompson who will present you with a registered deed to one square inch of land on Lincoln's "Forgotten Farm." The farm, where you will later camp out in Civil War tents, is "little known, even to the most avid Lincoln buffs," the catalogue explains. Probably to Lincoln, too. The finale of the safari will be the planting of a commemorative tree marked with a plaque bearing your name. Meanwhile, the Neiman Marcus folks will be planting all those green pictures of Lincoln you just gave themin the bank...