Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wachuku's debut as Nigeria's new Foreign Minister, and the verbal swagger reflected his country's pride in being Africa's most populous nation (40 million). It also reflected the fact that the new, half-civilized African states do not enter the world stage with any shyness. Only one year after his land reached nationhood, Wachuku could stand before the U.N. to lecture the world: "I am serving notice..." (to South Africa), "Things we want..." (from Portugal...
Thin as a soda straw, but vastly more resilient, Fonda makes a personable Broadway debut as the third of the acting Fondas (Father Henry, Sister Jane). Otherwise, all of the familiar adenoidal monsters that only a first sergeant could love show up for roll call in Stanley Poole, and the laughs are mostly AWOL...
...Hyannisport complex), Newport has special meaning. It was on the green-lawned, Angus-stocked, 97-acre Hammersmith Farm, owned by her stepfather and mother, Hugh and Janet Auchincloss, that Jackie spent her youthful summers. It was in the rambling, red-roofed Auchincloss manor that she made her 1947 debut. It was in Newport's St. Mary's Church that Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy were married in 1953, and on Hammersmith's spacious lawns that nearly a thousand townsmen, politicos and other out-of-towners swarmed for the reception...
Swinging onto the stage of the red-plush Teatro Nuovo for his operatic debut, a gangling, long-beaked American basso stirred his Milanese audience to excited whispers: "That's the son of Lolita." In fact, the new Don Basilio in The Barber of Seville could at best be ranked only as the fictional nymphet's half brother-the son of her creator, Novelist Vladimir Nabokov. But on his own merits, Harvard-educated Dmitri Nabokov, 27, a part-time mountain climber and amateur road racer, earned bravos from the discriminating Milanese gallery for his comic skill and the rich...
Three nights after the Kirov's debut, Sizova stopped the show again with Yuri Soloviev in a wildly exuberant pas de deux from Marius Petipa's Corsair, part of a program of excerpts that the troupe brought off with virtuosity and vigor...