Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lips, a young Greek god emerged last week into the modern world after a seclusion of 2,000 years. A bronze kouros (young man) probably representing Apollo, the slightly bigger-than-life statue is the oldest and biggest bronze kouros yet discovered. To ready it for its debut and first official posing, archaeologists spent many months stripping away the incrustations of time-and at least some of the mystery surrounding the young...
...innocuously titled Metallurgical Laboratory, a key figure in the development of the atomic bomb, Chancellor of St. Louis' Washington University (1945-53); of a stroke; in Berkeley, Calif. An unpretentious scion of one of America's distinguished intellectual families,* Ohio-born Arthur Compton made his scientific debut at ten with a treatise on elephants' toes, won the Nobel Prize (together with Britain's Charles T.R. Wilson) at 35 with the discovery that X rays are composed of particles, but despite his steeping in the scientific method clung to a deep religious faith, occasionally preaching from Presbyterian...
Nonetheless, in Lower Manhattan's cobblestoned butter-and-egg wholesaling district, the cocky little National Stock Exchange made its debut amid the clink of champagne glasses and the clang of the trading gong...
Robert Kennedy's good-will tour around the world is a debut to prepare for his campaign for the presidency in 1968. He has all the qualities to make a good President...
French opera fans are wary of opera sung in foreign tongues: German, in particular, they think, is a language that sits uneasily in the throat. Nevertheless, when Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 46, was lured to Paris to make a double debut-as the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier at the Paris Opéra, and as the Countess in Capriccio at the Opéra Comique-both productions were cast in the original German. In Soprano Schwarzkopf's case, the language might also have served as a reminder of her early career as a leader of a Nazi studentbund...