Word: debut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Geoffrey Hellman's recital Tuesday evening in Leverett House could not be described as less than unshakably solid. In his debut in the Cambridge musical community, Hellman '65 played four major works for piano. He used his technique in the best possible way; to open up the riches of the musical substance. His performance revealed a thoughtfulness and serious understanding that made the evening a quite...
...Post debut, Mrs. Javits exhibited an interest in gastronomy and fashion that the paper's readers, more accustomed to the naked dialectics of such columnists as Murray Kempton, James Wechsler and Max Lerner. may take some time getting used to. "For hors d'oeuvres," wrote Mrs. Javits, describing the table she laid for some visitors, "I served eggplant caviar on tiny rounds of toasted bread. Lunch began with quiche Lorraine, with special homemade puff-dough cheese sticks, followed by a main course of cold jellied boeuf . . . You can understand why neither the Senator nor I could eat dinner...
...opera unfolded, detailing the eating, loving, fighting and drinking habits of the inhabitants of Mahagonny during seven workless days of each week, the audience repeatedly broke in with applause-most notably at the end of Alabama-Song, a savage but haunting number in which Lotte Lenya made her debut as a singer more than three decades...
Tootle & Twang. The publication in the 1920s of such nonsense "plays" as Lardner's Clemo Uti-"The Water Lilies" and I Gaspiri (The Upholsterers) perhaps marked the literary debut of the New Lunacy. Hailed in some quarters as offshoots of Dada and in others as potshots at it, they helped form the Krazy Katechism of the era. With the mere setting of the scene in Clemo Uti-"the Outskirts of a Parchesi Board"-there sounded a note that would tootle and twang and echo from Perelman to Mad Magazine; it was there, too, in the very first lines...
...Europe but to the New York Philharmonic, again an exception to the rule. ("I had never thought of Europe. It was Casals who made me go.") Casals first heard the young man in New York and invited him to become his only pupil in Spain. Eisenberg finally made his debut in Paris at the comparatively advanced...