Word: clay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know the play was good," insisted the star. "Everybody up there on the stage can act and sing and dance better than any critics, so who are they to criticize?" Actually, the critics gave Muhammad Ali, better known as Cassius Clay, good reviews for his Broadway debut in Buck White, but they found the show pretty pallid. It went down for the count after seven performances...
Little Raquel Tejada (the last name means, in Spanish, "Spears of Clay") was born in Chicago on Sept. 5, 1940 (not, as she claims, 1942). Her father, Armand, is a Bolivian-born structural-stress engineer; her mother, Josephine, is of English stock. When Raquel was two, the Tejadas moved to La Jolla, Calif., a pretty, plasticized, middle-class community just north of San Diego. Raquel grew up in an all-American ambience that would have been a natural for a California Norman Rockwell. The family, which included Raquel's younger brother and sister, lived in a one-story stucco house...
Princeton's strong, aggressive defense benefited greatly last Saturday from the poor playing conditions on Cumnock Field. Brown will exploit the same advantage. Aldrich-Dexter Field has a hard clay base and is situated at the bottom of a large hill, so this week's rain should provide a soggy field that hinders the Crimson's speed and favors Brown's strength. As if they needed the advantage...
...sing? "I've been singing all my life," was the answer. Will he dance? "No dancing," retorted Muhammad Ali, otherwise known as Cassius Marcellus Clay. Next month the deposed heavyweight champion will make his Broadway debut, starring in the musical version of the Black Power play. Big Time Buck White. What's more, he has some pretty strong notions about what kind of show it will and will not be. As befits a Muslim minister, he insisted on a contract guaranteeing that there will be no unseemly language in the script. And there will be no nudity. There...
...16th and early 17th centuries by writing these novels, and that she wrote them in order to learn. Ordinary historical research, the reading of the documents, was only a beginning; the more important part of her learning, it is clear, came as her characters took form and motion. What clay and what fire make a witch? Write a novel, watch, and find out. The method works if the author has a genius for empathy and historic imagination...