Word: beholding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter Stapleton, 47, is doing very well as an author. Sales of her two books, The Gift of Inner Healing and The Experience of Inner Healing, amount to some 185,000 hard-cover copies. Her estimated $160,000 income is turned over to Stapleton's nonprofit religious corporation, Behold, Inc. Jimmy's other sister, Gloria Carter Spann, 51, reportedly received a $50,000 advance to compile a book of her mother's letters from India, Away from Home: Letters to My Family...
...Isolde nor the Ring cycle makes much sense without Heldensoprano Birgit Nilsson, who has been away from the U.S. for several seasons and gives no sign of returning. Last week the Met considerably shored up its Wagnerian wing with a new production of Tannhäuser that was spectacular to behold, breathtaking (with one major exception) to hear and immensely satisfying in the way it made dramatic sense of the churchiness that infuses the work. The performance also emphatically implied that Music Director James Levine, 34, is fast becoming a skilled Wagnerian conductor...
...theme of Candidate Jimmy Carter's autobiography more explicit than in his campaign promises on the administration of justice. Said he: "All federal judges and prosecutors should be appointed strictly on the basis of merit, without any consideration of political aspects or influence." But, lo and behold, merit has turned up, as it so often does in politics, apportioned according to party lines...
...read at prayer services this Saturday morning. It was a passage from Genesis describing the reconciliation of Jacob and his brother Esau, who fathered the Edomites, said to be forebears of today's Arabs. A key passage from the reading: "Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold Esau came ... and Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him, and they wept...
...meant to mention that beyond the psychodrama, the Red Sox won an exciting game, 4 to 3. Then the Yankees won an exciting game, 6 to 5. The baseball was marvelous to behold...