Word: curiousity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effect of Poland's assertion of independence echoed through the satellites despite the gingerly coverage by satellite radio stations. But the most curious reception was in Tito's Yugoslavia. There, old hands at this kind of intrigue took careful note of the appearance of Molotov...
...curious fact that virtually all of the newer documents were records of loans made by the Lombard bankers of Italy to Crusaders passing through-and all were unearthed by the same genealogist, one Henri Courtois. But if these facts caused any doubts to arise, they were promptly quelled by the further fact that the greatest medievalist in France, Director Leon Lacabane of the Ecole des Chartes, authenticated each...
...private impresario and only agent. "Why should I give those damned agencies 10% or 20% of what I make?" she asked. Meneghini coaxed old Conductor Tullio Serafin, now 77, to coach her, and the two went to work. In Turin, before she was to appear as Aida, a curious critic wandered into the theater at 9 a.m. to find her onstage, going over every passage again and again. while Serafin interrupted, corrected, polished tirelessly. They worked until midnight, were at it again early next day. Callas' Aida became Turin's biggest postwar success...
...curious combination of comedies is the new presentation at the Poet's Theater. Eugene Ionesco's The Bald Soprano is almost pure farce, while The Lady and Her Sources, by the Spanish poet Pedro Salinas, is a sharply etched satire on professors and pedantry...
...those of us who don't have girl friends, Mount Auburn Cemetery has always been a place where they bury people. It was a curious institution, this Mount Auburn, where, rumors suggested, every literateur from Euripides to Ernest Hemingway was entombed. Just to make sure, and to satisfy an insistent editor-boss, we strolled through its sacred arbors one misty, ethereal afternoon this week; frankly, we wish we'd never gone...