Word: bruno
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world has both favored and feared the philosophers' answers. Thomas Aquinas became a saint, Aristotle was tutor to Alexander the Great, and Voltaire was a confidant of kings. But Socrates was put to death, and Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake. Nowadays, Historian Will Durant has noted, no one would think of doing that-"not because men are more delicate about killing, but because there is no need to kill that which is already dead...
...strong in all three weapons, but the foil team is still a standout. Senior Steve Weinstein, amazingly quick on attack despite his bulk, is a second-team all-American, Sophomore Jeff Kestler, former New York public school champion won the New York Metropolitan Invitational this year. Third man is Bruno Santonocito, second in last year's Eastern foil competition...
...appeal. Dorothy had the good journeyman's talent for catching accurate detail, as well as a sharp eye for the offbeat feature story on, say, an obscure trial witness. Whenever Hearst editors scented a big story, she was sure to get the assignment; she was on hand for Bruno Hauptmann's trial, F.D.R.'s first presidential campaign, Queen Elizabeth's coronation, Princess Margaret's marriage, Khrushchev's U.S. visit. In turn, her fellow Hearst employees respected her as a master practitioner of Hearst journalism, a judgment that was amply evident in the amount...
...plane was still on fire when it disappeared through the pass. I thought it had gone down. It was a terrible thing. The wing just kept getting shorter." Miraculously, neither the engine nor the wing section struck anyone on the ground. The engine landed in a San Bruno carpentry shop, narrowly missing three workers; the burning 27-ft. by 6-ft. piece of wing fell in the yard of a South San Francisco house...
...much an opera as a series of dreamlike tableaux strung across a barren landscape of the ear. The score is jaggedly dissonant, an extension of the twelve-tone music espoused by Nono's idol and father-in-law, the late Composer Arnold Schoenberg. Italian Composer Bruno Maderna conducted the performance like a man refereeing a pingpong match, swinging from side to side to summon a swatch of mewing strings here, a splash of braying trumpets there. For the singers it was "up and down, up and down, from high C to low F," said Tenor Lawrence White...