Word: candlelite
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...Opera Ballet Company, happily joined the packed Covent Garden house in its energetic, foot-stomping applause. After the performance, they bolted from their seats in the stalls to a party with the dancers in the hall's well-named Crush Bar, then continued the marathon whirl at a candlelit coming-out ball given by Hungarian-born Textile Manufacturer Miki Sekers, finally got back to Kensington Palace just before dawn...
...four years Leontyne labored at Juilliard. appearing in any student production she could get into, singing for anybody who cared to listen in the lobby of the International House where she lived, or at the customary candlelit Sunday night suppers. Says a pianist friend of the Juilliard days: "It never entered my mind that Leontyne would not make it." But Leontyne herself was far less sure. She fell in love with a Haitian ("He was no musician." says Leontyne now, "but he sure was an artist"), and when the episode ended abruptly, she began threatening suicide. One night...
...kind of man-with-a-cause book that lets the reader see clearly how noble the author is. Most of Barker's record is painstakingly unspectacular: daily contacts with household crises, the long nights' journeys into human understanding when a patient is saved by candlelit surgery, or when one more dark-skinned child is brought into a segregated world...
Candles & Lanterns. Next day, the leftists filled Tokyo's streets with 150,000 demonstrators. Carrying candlelit lanterns and marching 30 abreast, the column streamed from the Diet building to the U.S. embassy. With 8,000 police looking on, they stopped a bus bearing 20 of Kishi's Liberal Democrats, poked sticks through the windows, dragged out three of the legislators and roughed them up. Some 4,000 students laid siege to Pre mier Kishi's suburban home to prevent his leaving to keep an appointment with Jim Hagerty - an appointment Kishi denied having...
...Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., honored De Gaulle in his own language; Mayor Wagner, not to be outdone, quoted from Victor Hugo; and the New York Times ran the complete text of De Gaulle's speech in French. For dinner, the Waldorf's candlelit Grand Ballroom was crammed with the high-angled names of the city's society. At the "April in Paris'' Ball at the Astor, socialites shelled out $150 a ticket only to find themselves at a party snubbed by its hoped-for guest of honor. (Said an aide...