Word: cristo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...traffic on the big, four-lane Santa Fe-Taos highway was fin to fender one evening last week. Five miles outside Santa Fe the line of cars turned off the highway, crept to the top of one of the low-lying foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and disgorged a crowd of dinner-jacketed men and bare-shouldered women. In the open theater on the far side of the hill, the lights were about to go up on the Southwest's first full season of resident, repertory-company opera...
...various books read. Eighth-graders must report on a book a week. But in all reading, the experts insist, each Johnny should proceed at his own level. For the 15-year-old who can only manage fourth-grade books, such classics as Ben Hur and The Count of Monte Cristo have been simplified accordingly...
Dumas wrote day and night, working with and without collaborators, laughing as the wonderful pages of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte-Cristo rolled off. In a suburban castle even bigger and uglier than Scott's Abbotsford, surrounded by his menagerie and mistresses, he gave ducal parties (he often did the cooking) and spent money as fast as he made it. When Napoleon III pulled his 1851 coup and restored the Empire, Dumas fled to Belgium with Victor Hugo and other republicans. "The difference," says Maurois, "was that Hugo was fleeing before a tyrant, Dumas before...
...Rome, another squad descended on the building of the same Protestant sect, obliterated the 10-in. stone letters on the building's front, which read: "Chiesa di Cristo [Church of Christ...
...Monte Cristo, nursed it for 16 years, and became rich. Trundled about the country on one-night stands, young Gene developed a lifelong loathing of hotels and railroads, but sopped up his father's sturdy showmanship. According to legend, young O'Neill was bounced out of Princeton for heaving a beer bottle through President Woodrow Wilson's window, but the truth is that he flunked three midyear exams and all his freshman finals...