Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the works of Presidential Pundits White and Schlesinger [July 30], I find that, like Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels, I have "discovered the roguery and ignorance of those who pretend to write anecdotes, or secret history; who send so many kings to their graves with a cup of poison; will repeat the discourse between a prince and chief minister, where no witness was by; unlock the thoughts and cabinets of embassadors and secretaries of state; and have the perpetual misfortune to be mistaken...
...smiling, stage center, ready to go -everywhere at once. Last week he popped up at the Munich Opera Festival singing the lead role in Hindemith's rarely performed Cardillac. Premiered in 1926, the opera -a starkly sketched exercise in early expressionism-is hardly everyone's cup of tea. Yet as interpreted by Director Rudolf Hartmann and Fischer-Dieskau, cast as a goldsmith who peddles his handiwork by day only to redeem it at night by killing off his customers, Cardillac proved the surprise hit of the month-long festival. Stable Serenade. At 40, Fischer-Dieskau is a comparative...
...Mexicans were exultant. The draw for the first match in the Davis Cup zone finals in Dallas two weeks ago paired their most experienced player, Rafael Osuna, 26, against the least experienced U.S. player, U.C.L.A. Tennis Star Arthur Ashe, 22. "It is exactly what we wanted," crowed Mexican Captain Pancho Contreras. "Winning the first match is a psychological advantage...
...Ashe won the National Junior Indoor championship, in 1961 the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association's Interscholastic title, and in 1963 the U.S. Men's Hard Court championship. He was ranked sixth nationally in 1963 and was made a freshman member of the U.S. Davis Cup team. He did not see much cup action, but under Davis Cup Coach Pancho Gonzales, he has so improved his control that he is now rated the third best amateur in the U.S., after Dennis Ralston and Chuck McKinley...
...Ashe is a fourth-year scholarship student in business administration at U.C.L.A., moves in the world of topflight U.S. tennis with charm and infectious good cheer. "If it were left up to me," he says, "I wouldn't feel anything about being the first Negro on the Davis Cup team. But I am asked about it all the time, so naturally, I am conscious of it. Of course, I know I was wanted on the team because I was needed. If I weren't needed, perhaps the atmosphere would be different." His teammates couldn't care less...