Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only attempt at comedy, deals entirely with real people and with none of the composer's familiar Teutonic gods and goddesses, it demands more realistic stagecraft than most of the Wagnerian operas. Last week, the story of the knight Walther's love for the goldsmith's daughter Eva, and of how he won both her and the mastersingers' song contest with the aid of Sachs, was unfolded with a dramatic skill not always observed on the Met's stage...
...recruits of all races, religions and incomes, they are fast becoming more democratic than homogeneous suburban public schools. "The idea that private schools are for snobs is absolute nonsense," says Owen B. Kiernan, Massachusetts' commissioner of education. A few Junes ago, one proper Bostonian summed up: "Today my daughter graduates from Foxcroft. Tomorrow my chauffeur's son graduates from Groton...
...other girl was Sylvia Pratt, warm-spirited daughter of a noted Boston doctor, and Kemper married her soon after he graduated in 1935-132nd in a class of 275. A "sand-rat lieutenant," he was soon running a cram school for getting enlisted men into West Point, did so well that in 1939 the Point yanked him out of the infantry to teach history. He dutifully earned a Columbia master's degree in 1942 while itching to go to war. In its wisdom, the Army put him in G-2 with the prickly job of organizing U.S. historians...
...squirm and leave, but Honey is a remarkably opaque ninny who promptly proceeds to get throwing-up drunk on brandy, and Nick proves to be made of sneakily ambitious stuff that will not permit him to turn his back on a hostess who happens also to be the daughter of the president of the college...
...have the fullest respect for our law and its administration." Indeed, he merely indulged in a common Massachusetts occupation: misusing state construction funds. In 1961, the Metropolitan District Commission awarded a sidewalk repair contract to the B & M Construction Co., an imaginary firm owned by Iannello's wife, daughter and son-in-law. Iannello, acting for the firm, signed all proposals and vouchers connected with the project. On receiving these documents, the State handed...