Word: debuted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...licensed real estate agent in Los Angeles 15 years ago, Shirley Verrett was pretty good at selling houses. Today, she is even better at selling them out. Mezzo-Soprano Verrett last week made her Metropolitan Opera debut as the heroine in Bizet's Carmen. Be fore the night was out, she had men smiling to themselves and women wondering how a flower might look in their teeth...
...unyielding self-assurance-and so proved it in her brief venture in real estate. Then Shirley won an Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts show in 1955, and the Juilliard School of Music gave her a full scholarship. Graduated in 1961, she had already made a successful Town Hall debut and been featured in a number of major concerts and recitals. She had also won $30,000 in a string of musical contests. "I always picked the one that gave the most money," Verrett says...
Sophomore end PETE VARNEY, who caught 11 passes for 89 yards in his varsity debut Saturday, was named Eastern Collegiate Athletic Association sophomore of the week. Varney scored 8 points on one touchdown and a two point conversion against Holy Cross, and will be looking to repeat the performance against Bucknell on Saturday...
...Spaghetti. Horowitz was persuaded to do the program by an old friend, New York Times Critic-at-Large Howard Taubman, who acted as executive producer. Taubman argued that a TV recital would be a good way for Horowitz to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his U.S. debut. It would also be an ideal chance to make up for the infrequency of his public appearances in recent years...
...hint of theatrical emphasis or timing. The Portuguese peasants are clearly not actors at all. but no professional performer could hope to match the direct simplicity of their response to the tragedy that surrounds them. Best of all is Marc Pico, a young French documentary-film director making his debut as an actor. I He does not so much play Antonio as become him, reflecting with puzzlement and pain the bitter reality of a man who sees himself turning slowly into an imprisoned object...