Word: da
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suddenly it came. "Da sheontee kono meki no sienti holay coriente no sheonte mees . . ." said one of the women in a cool, musical voice. She continued for about a minute to utter these sounds, meaningless in any known language. No one glanced up or spoke. After a minute or two of silence, she "interpreted" what she had said: "The Lord thy God says unto thee that he is here in the midst of thee . . . When you pray, fear not. He is with you always, and his love surrounds you like a fleecy cloud. Thus saith the Lord." This was greeted...
...Culture André Malraux, as well as adviser on Malraux's art books, Fautrier overcame his representational tendencies 30 years ago, is "freed from the limits of design" when he paints. Virtually indistinguishable from one another, Fautrier's paintings bear such titles as Bare Breasts, Landscape, Wa Da Da...
...angels, stands in the geographic center of the city; sightseers and lovers go by elevator to the roof to admire the view of the wide Lombard plain and the snowy crest of Mont Blanc. The grim battlements of Sforzesco Castle still brood over their grassy moat, and Leonardo da Vinci's faded master piece, The Last Supper, is slowly peeling on the wall of the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie. The curious tourist will have a difficult time finding a notorious wartime monument: the gasoline station where the battered bodies of Benito Mussolini and his brunette mistress, Claretta...
Eminent Domain. In Pesqueira, Brazil, Landlord Joao Francisco da Silva was locked up for nonpayment of property taxes on the city jailhouse, which he owns...
...made her grand opera debut in the NBC-TV production of Tosca ("I was the first black Tosca that big audience had seen"), later made her European grand opera debut in Aïda at the Vienna Staatsoper, guided by Conductor Herbert von Karajan. Since then Leontyne has had an uninterrupted string of European successes, particularly in Italy. After La Scala, Soprano Price has one more giant step ahead of her in the U.S.: next season she will sing yet another Verdian role-Leonora in Il Trovatore-in her debut at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera...