Word: delia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other upper-classmen waited to make that kind of sale with their minds newly stocked with wonderfully voweled names like Penelope, Delia, Venessa, Deborah, and Irene and pages of snap-shot-size visions of the prime side of a secondary aspect. Sometimes the upperclassmen were smiled at skittishly and sometimes they were given genteel laughs from deep in the throat; sometimes they heard the patently private, as when a girl with small shoulders and slight hips told a friend whose nails were dirty: "The only reason my family needs to love me is that I'm alive...
STRAUSS: FOUR LAST SONGS (Angel). On records, at least, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf is still one of the supreme vocal artists of the day. Here she gives a seamless performance, as if all four songs were drawn on one breath. Her performance may not quite measure up to Lisa Delia Casa's classic recording of a decade ago, which is an irresistible blend of youthfulness and melancholy; yet Schwarzkopf sounds as if she had lived the life now ending and better understands the tragic resignation...
Because Johann Sebastian Bach hymned religiously in dozens of soaring masses, magnificats, motets and fugues and developed the contrapuntal organ that still accompanies the Gregorian chant, three pious Venetian music lovers wrote the Vatican's weekly Osservatore Delia Domenica that he should be considered for sainthood. Alas, replied Theologian Benvenuto Matteucci, a Protestant is a Protestant, however sublime his music. "There is an esthetic and artistic religious sentiment in his musical expressions," Monsignor Matteucci sympathized, "but it is only through the true and only church of Christ that salvation and sainthood come." So Lutheran Bach must remain unbeatified except...
Another Eva. Perón's great misadventure began shortly before midnight when a Mercedes sedan pulled out of his underground garage. Inside were Jorge Antonio, Perón's financial adviser, and Delia Parodi, a Peronista spitfire from Buenos Aires; the guard waved them briskly through the gate. Then, out of sight a few miles up the road, Jorge Antonio stopped the car and bustied around to the trunk. And who popped out? Of course. Even with a hat tugged over his eyebrows and a vicuña scarf pulled up tightly around his chin, the sportily...
Such notions violently divided the university's 17-member philosophy faculty. "It is selling your philosophical birthright for a mess of existential pottage," protested the Rev. Joseph Delia...