Word: dame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...female soloists are not up to the men. Still, contralto Patricia Leonard is an admirable Fairy Queen, stern on the outside but soft within. When speaking she sometimes amusingly summons up the inflections of the late Dame Edith Evans. Barbara Lilley's Iolanthe and Jane Metcalfe's Phyllis are acceptable but not outstanding. Metcalfe needs to work still on her diction when singing. And why doesn't Lilley use the prescribed veil in her encounter with the Lord Chancellor, who is supposed not to recognize...
Explains Father Joseph Walters, pre-med adviser at Notre Dame: "Students face borrowing $50,000 to finance medical school. Later, with the high cost of malpractice insurance, they would need an income of $5,000 a month to start a practice and pay back the debt. The opportunities of earning $60,000 a year right out of med school are rarely there...
...city's venerable fish market. The author is also a shrewd observer of the turf, from the garish 1,000-year-old Canebière, the broad boulevard known to generations of English-speaking sailors as the "Can o' Beer," to the Old Port and Notre Dame de la Garde, "the Old Gold Lady up on the hill." Fisher is at her wisest and most amusing as an observer of the Marseillais, those dark, stocky descendants of every Mediterranean race. Their women are among the most fascinating in the world, with their harsh, deep voices, tough yet utterly...
...case red tape prevents Kogan from enrolling in the Moscow Conservatory, she will take private lessons with the grande-dame harpist of the Soviet Union, Comrade Pulova...
University of Notre Dame William F. Buckley, LL.D., author, editor. A stowaway foretopman on the ship of state; a franc-tireur for the West and Christendom; a Burke, a Roland, a Quixote, with a whiff of Falstaff and a swing of the snickersnee...