Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elite equipped with secret knowledge. As such, most of the manuscripts are interesting mainly to scholars. But the Gospel of St. Thomas has a special concern and fascination for all Christians, for it is a 3rd or 4th century collection of 114 "sayings of Jesus" that dates back to a Greek manuscript from the first half of the 2nd century-within 50 years of the Gospels themselves. Such compilations of quotes, set down without any connecting narrative, were used, modern scholars believe, by the authors of canonical Scripture...
...Valentine, weighing 234 lbs. More than two miles away, at the Academy of Music, famed Soprano Renata ('Diva Serena") Tebaldi stepped to the front of the stage and sang Ah, spietata from Handel's Amadigi. As the evening wore on, a suave, white-tied figure kept scurrying back and forth between the two programs: Aurelio ("Ray") Fabiani, promoter of both wrestling and music, was hard at work on both sides of show-business history...
Since Fabiani turned back to music two years ago with the formation of the Lyric, he has been doing all his own casting, drawing mostly on the NBC Opera and the New York City Opera companies, borrowing scenery from Manhattan's City Center. With citywide billboard displays, he challenges Philadelphia's entrenched Grand Opera Co. So far. the Lyric has been no more daring in repertory, will present ten works next season, three of which will be contemporary: Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex, Carl Orff's Carmina Burana (both to be conducted by Leopold Stokowski), and Carlisle...
...rapid trills and runs of 18th century organ style. With Biggs playing the Flentrop and Pinkham * operating a smaller 18th century organ moved in especially for the occasion, the concert unfolded as a gaily trip-hammered dialogue in which one instrument occasionally laid down the theme, then fell back to let the other one elaborate. Most of the time the two organs sounded together, but there was one passage where they called back and forth to each other like two playful boys. Each concerto ended with a sprightly minuet of such infectious gaiety that the dignified audience smiled or broke...
...could put on a brave-front part of the time, to hide deep distress. But in 24 hours she was beginning to withdraw from solicitous nurses. Soon she withdrew from her mother, resenting her visits because she could not understand why they had to end. Back home, Laura was markedly anxious and irritable for weeks; six months later, mention of the hospital still revived resentment of mummy's "desertion." (In children who have stayed longer than Laura in the hospital, Analyst Robertson has noted more severe, probably permanent emotional damage...