Word: debut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enthusiastic reception that greeted the New York Review of Books on its debut last February in the midst of the newspaper strike raised an inevitable question: Would it ever appear again? Last week 100,000 copies of issue No. 2, crammed with critiques from the likes of Stephen Spender, Robert Heilbroner and Truman Capote, and carrying 18 pages of ads in its 48 tabloid-sized pages, were on sale at newsstands and bookstores across Manhattan. This time the Review made no secret of when it would turn up next. Emboldened by a near sellout of their first, 100,000-copy...
...there the similarities end. Martha, the woman on the stage, has made a fatal wreckage of her life. Uta Hagen has made hers an accomplishment. After a year at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, she made her debut as an Óphelia considerably taller than Hamlet, who was played, oddly enough, by Eva Le Gallienne. She became a memorable Desdemona and a fine St. Joan. She followed Jessica Tandy as Tennessee Williams' Blanche DuBois with a performance so good that it was generally conceded to be the better of the two. She won another Tony award...
...slaves, blue-faced soldiers, ballet dancers painted green from head to toe. And when Radames made his second-act victory procession, he came on at the head of 200 soldiers and 100 Ethiopian slaves. In an ardent effort to recreate the splendor of Aïda's 1871 debut in Cairo (in celebration of the recent opening of the Suez Canal), Zeffirelli chose Second Empire France and Epic Hollywood as his cultural guides. "I have tried to give the public the best that Cecil B. De Mille could offer," he said, "but in good taste...
...uplifting. The orchestra's musicians get five extra weeks' pay beyond the 27-week regular season, and Conductor Mitchell gets to exercise his gently messianic streak with little lectures from the podium. Speaking for the city at large, the Washington Post greeted the new spring's debut with an editorial thought that was justifiably common in Washington. "All of us owe her the warmest thanks," it said...
Recalling his costly 1958 debut, Pearson makes no effort to shift the blame. "It was a very stupid move, and it made me look inept and incompetent just as I became leader...