Word: denly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hair-raising. Callas entered Baron Scarpia's den looking like the Queen of the Night in her black velvet and ermine gown and glittering tiara. Her lip curled shrewishly at Scarpia's overtures, but she staggered when she heard her lover's tortured screams. She wound up her big show-stopping aria, Vissi d'Arte, on her knees just in time to receive the ovation that greeted it. Meanwhile, Mitropoulos, silhouetted against the stage lights, was kneading, soothing, irritating, roiling his orchestra, bouncing around in the climaxes like a marionette on a string. With a start...
...Fell was a close friend of Lincoln's, suggested the Lincoln- Douglas debates, worked for Lincoln's presidential campaign. Adlai's Democratic paternal grandfather and namesake was Vice President in Grover Cleveland's second Administration, and the old campaign posters still decorate Adlai's den in Libertyville. Adlai's birth naturally prompted his Grandfather William O. Davis (a Republican) to pronounce himself delighted at the "launching of this little presidential craft...
...Campaign of Hate." But he did undertake a Daniel-in-the-lions'-den role, told his undersized Southern audience (of 250) that the Supreme Court's segregation decisions are the law of the land and must be enforced as such. If the U.S. is to win its struggle against Communism, he said, "we must recognize that two-thirds of the free people have colored skins" and that the Reds are "using racial discrimination in America for part of their campaign of hate against...
...farm at Gettysburg, Pa., to be greeted by Mamie's mother, Mrs. Elivera Doud. The farm looked sunny, warm, restful. Wild roses, day lilies and hollyhocks were abloom; the corn was knee-high. Tired from the trip, Ike lay down to rest in his oak-paneled, first-floor den. In a short while the Eisenhowers and their weekend guests, Walter Reed Hospital Commander Major General Leonard Heaton (who performed the ileitis operation) and Mrs. Heaton, were all soaking up an afternoon nap. A double celebration was in order for the weekend: it was the Eisenhowers' 40th wedding anniversary...
...Manhattan jazz den known as Birdland, the seven-man combo was swinging up a storm. Its music had a fine, contrapuntal texture, played with a neatly organized air that is not characteristic of such outfits, and was several degrees warmer than most modern jazz. The leader: Austria's excellent young (26) Concert Pianist Friedrich Gulda, making his first professional appearance as a jazzman...