Word: breds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Actually, by the time the Vienna-bred Korngold landed in Hollywood in 1934, he had behind him an astounding career as a musical Wunderkind in Europe. When he was a teenager, his works were performed by Pianist Artur Schnabel and Conductor Bruno Walter. In 1921, when Korngold was 24, his third opera, Die Tote Stadt (The Dead City), was staged at New York's Metropolitan Opera. In the leading role of Marietta was Soprano Maria Jeritza, making her Met debut. The American public took to Jeritza but not to Korngold, and after a few years it forgot...
...does he do it? For one thing, Cordero was bred to ride in a sport where bloodlines count. Both his grandfathers were jockeys in Santurce, P.R. Angel (who pronounces his Spanish name An-hell and likes to think of himself as a flying angel) has been riding professionally for 15 of his 32 years. The 5-ft. 3-in., 113-lb. jock, a bubbling personality who often sings while riding to the post, is a quiet artist at the reins. Along with a "good-looking seat"-he rides in a tight crouch with his back parallel to the horse...
Muhammad denied that he promoted hatred toward whites. If not hatred, it was contempt: whites were "the human beast-the serpent, the dragon, the devil and Satan." The white race, he taught, had been bred 6,000 years ago by a black scientist. In an insanely logical moment, the Nation of Islam once invited American Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell to a meeting and heard him laud Elijah Muhammad as the "Adolf Hitler of the black...
...Harvard had refused to undertake. He left Harvard out of bitterness and frustration with the University's treatment of the performing arts as a second-rate discipline, a policy that persists to this day. Drama, dance and music are now accepted as means of entertainment and relaxation for well-bred scholars, but they have made little headway in the academic curriculum...
...director died, but Richardson's survived, first as Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge (Winthrop and Kirkland Houses) later as Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott (who designed the Fogg, Old Quincy, Old Leverett, Burr) and now as Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson & Abbott (New Quincy, Leverett Towers, Mather). In Richardson's case, a dictatorship bred something of a cooperative. In Wright's and others, it bred collapse...