Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson then went to the White House to take his turn before the TV set. Kosygin, the economics expert who typifies the pragmatic new Soviet man, did little in his U.N. debut but rehearse the catechism of Kremlin clichés. He did, hopeful U.S. diplomats noted, leave open a minuscule area for potential negotiation by acknowledging Israel's right to national existence and mentioning the need for a "common language" among the great powers. Otherwise he sounded like a technocrat's Molotov...
...August that Counts. Despite Intrepid's impressive racing debut, Mosbacher insisted that the boat was still a long way from demonstrating her full potential. "We've been having spinnaker problems," he said. "We've got to make changes in our sails. There's plenty still to be done." But experts were impressed by Intrepid's speed to windward-a crucial talent, since fully half of the 24.3-mile America's Cup course consists of windward beats. And they could hardly fail to applaud the performance put on by Mosbacher and his well-drilled crew...
...they fled across the river in canoes. All along the swampy and grassy border areas, Ibo soldiers dug into foxholes. In the Eastern towns, however, the mood was ebullient, and many businessmen took to renaming their establishments after the new republic. In Onitsha, the Lucky Biafra Bar made its debut, while a freshly painted red sign advertised the No More Nigeria Garage...
...Lover. He was given 24 hours to acquire an American accent, spent the night steeping himself in an album by a comic named Woody Woodbury. The jokes, recalls Crawford, were awful, but his accent was bang-on and he got the part. Next came his West End debut in the comedy Come Blow
Soprano Sutherland and her husband, Conductor Richard Bonynge, share a fondness for unearthing faded or seldom-heard operas. Sutherland made her U.S. debut in Dallas in 1960 in Handel's all-but-forgotten opera Alcina. She and her husband are also responsible for the revival of Rossini's Semiramide, which had not been staged in the U.S. for 59 years when the couple brought it to Boston in 1965. For the sake of his principals, Bonynge embellished the score of Orfeo with newly composed "decorations for the soprano and tenor, which are part of the tradition of Haydn...