Word: bowl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money as she held aloft her dead infant, waving it by one foot, "like a butcher with a plucked chicken." Mydans gave her some money, and later that night, belly tight with food, Mydans came shamefully back to the spot where he. had seen her. There she sat, a bowl of white rice by her side. Something stirred at her breast. Mydans looked. It was the child-alive and suckling with contented gurglings. "Then," writes Mydans, "I understood: in starving China any ruse is a fair one that adds a few more days to life...
Conductor Leonard Bernstein is no stranger to adulation. But not even Bernstein was prepared for the reception he got last week as the first full-scale U.S. symphony to visit Turkey in years gave two concerts at Istanbul's bowl-shaped, Open-Air Theater. At the head of the 106-piece New York Philharmonic, Bernstein faced an audience of music-hungry Turks that overflowed the bowl's 5,000 seats, crashed through wooden barriers and stampeded past police lines to jam every aisle and step...
...proof was Threni. Since then, Oliver has scored other successes singing four Mozart arias with the Santa Monica Symphony, and as Zuniga in the Hollywood Bowl's Carmen. He takes as many as five lessons each week, is now being trained by Strelitzer to sing all of Wagner's bass roles. Oliver insists that he will not turn professional. But he knows that most bassos do not reach their peak until their mid-40s and admits that the idea is attractive. Says he: "There is a great temptation when you have that feeling of raw power over...
...only ones who loved the place were the few real skiers who gloried in the 18 runs wiggling down the slopes of a snow bowl filled with a loft. base and topped by 8 ft. of powder or corn snow. First a few, then by the dozen, top skiers showed up: onetime U.S. Champion Ralph Miller set a world speed record by schussing Garganta run at 109.9 m.p.h...
...Revitalized Life. With his begging bowl in hand, Jerm was informed that he could eat only what he had collected in one morning and was not allowed to save food. He was assigned to a companion and a tutor from among the professional priests and was told his priestly name-Suwanno, meaning gold. After he stated that he was a human being (because, in the Buddha's time, legend has it that a snake in human form was once ordained), Jerm formally became a priest...