Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hoaxes in a reverent and earsplitting performance. Originally hailed as a newly discovered coronation Mass by 17th century Composer Etienne Moulinié, the work was presented in 1951 in Paris' Basilica of St. Denis before a distinguished audience as part of Paris' celebration of its 2,000th birthday (breathed one critic: "Perhaps the foreign visitors . . . were able to feel what the Kingdom of France once meant"). When a musicologist belatedly discovered that Composer Moulinié had never written a Mass, Father Emile Martin of Paris' Church of St. Eustache dutifully confessed that he had composed...
...outburst of whimsy, with gesture to match, veteran Comedian Charlie Chaplin, celebrating his 68th birthday at his Swiss chalet, piped: "When you're 68, you don't want to cut a birthday cake. You want to cut your throat!" Chaplin's devoted wife, Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 31 and soon expecting her sixth child, laughed nervously as Chaplin displayed a frighteningly realistic flash of his old pantomimic genius, faintly tinged with...
Boating on the Yangtze. One of Tessai's favorites was Sung Dynasty Poet Su Tung-p'o (they shared the same birthday), and Tessai, in his painting Latter Red Cliff Ode, illustrated the poet's description of a night's boating on the Yangtze River near Huang-chou, culminating in the dramatic moment when the poet saw two cranes fly by (later revealed in a dream to have been two Taoist immortals). The painting is now in the ceremonial process of being declared one of Japan's national treasures...
...Birthday of a Nation...
...executives can dictate to 24 recording machines in a central transcription room, where expert typists quickly do the work. Yet mechanization is not the final answer. The girls find the work boring and faceless. And a machine can't go out on its lunch hour and buy a birthday present for the boss's wife...