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...pants—indeed, it was his heroism at Normandy that did the Krauts in. Thurmond will not be around forever. Voting for him means that one day, your white children will live safe in the knowledge that they can one day play first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers, without any competition from the Negro...
...face, I scream, I vomit, I lose my children, I'm degraded. It's so difficult, so emotionally demanding." The role requires speedy costume changes - some clothes are fitted with magnets that fasten unaided - and equally swift transitions in mood and tone, as the scenes shift between postwar Brooklyn and wartime Poland. Fortunately for audiences and for Kirchschlager, she rose magnificently to the challenge. Though the opera itself, a four-hour-long work by British composer Nicholas Maw, has received mixed reviews, Kirchschlager's performance has won unanimous raves. The Sunday Times praised her "extraordinary eloquence." The Baltimore Sun said...
Chauncey was born Feb. 9, 1905, in Brooklyn, N.Y., the first child of Episcopalian minister Egisto Fabbri Chauncey and deaconess Edith Lockwood Taft Chauncey...
DIED. MADELINE JAYNES, 59, journalist, who brought a talent for discerning nuance and spotting inconsistency to the New York Times, CNN and TIME; of cancer; in Brooklyn, N.Y. She had been an editor at TIME since...
Paulin, who has received criticism for reportedly saying that Brooklyn-born settlers on the West Bank in Israel “should be shot dead” and referring in one of his poems to “Zionist SS” who shot “another little Palestinian boy,” has said his quotations were taken out of context...