Word: bel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...macabre, Gesualdo-like modulations (superbly sung in the production); Phedre's pathetic scena, "Cruella mere des amours": the Act IV Hippolyte-Aricie duet, "Ah! fautil e un jour," with its revealing major-minor key shifts, and Aricie's closing "Nightingale Aria," one of the first soprano vs. flute bel canto trials...
...Sardinia, Sons and Lovers. Wyndham Lewis, Tarr. Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Contes Cruels. Louis MacNeice, Autumn Journal. Stephane Mallarme, Poesies. Andre Malraux, La Condition Humaine. Katherine Mansfield, The Garden Party. Somerset Maugham, The Casuarina Tree. Guy de Maupassant, Bel Ami. Henri Michaux, Au Pays de la Magie...
Lavish praise from teachers and considerable coolness among administrators is the fate of New York Teacher Bel Kaufman's amusing, poignant and pointed first novel, Up the Down Staircase, which dramatizes the first-year frustrations of a metropolitan high school teacher. Easily the most popular novel about U.S. public schools in history, the book has just passed a full year on the bestseller lists, sold 350,000 copies in hard cover and 1,500,000 in its first month in paperback. Warner Bros, has paid $400,000 for film rights and is now trying to pick an actress...
...Make a Difference. Bel Kaufman knows firsthand how a kid can get lost in a classroom. A granddaughter of Humorist Sholom Aleichem ("the Yiddish Mark Twain"), she was born in Berlin, lived until twelve in Russia, where her father practiced medicine and her mother wrote short stories. Her family then moved to The Bronx, where she was thrown into first grade with six-year-olds and learned English "by osmosis." She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Hunter College, earned an M.A. in 18th century literature from Columbia, taught in every type of New York City high school, from those...
...Edward ("Sunny Jim") Fitzsimmons, 91, grand and cheery old man of U.S. thoroughbred racing; of heart disease; in Miami. A stableboy at ten, then a so-so jockey on half-mile outlaw tracks, Mr. Fitz hit his stride by the mid-'20s when he became head trainer at Bel air Stud Farm and the Wheatley Stable, then over the years saddled such greats as Johnstown, Nashua, Bold Ruler and Triple Crown Winners Omaha and Gallant Fox, winning a total of 2,275 races and $13,082,911 (his cut: 10%). Until he retired at 88, stooped (from arthritis...