Word: died
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strung from here to there, and made lovely, disturbing sounds. It is distressing to monitor his illness for so long. One knows not only that Kafka's death must arrive in 1924, but also what will come of his larger presentiments: Kafka's three sisters will all die in concentration camps, the Nazis' extension of what Kafka imagined...
...Sometimes a naïve person will wish, 'I would like to be dead and see how everyone mourns me.' Such a writer is continually staging such a scene: He dies (or rather he does not live) and continually mourns himself. From this springs a terrible fear of death ... he has a terrible fear of dying because he has not yet lived. .. In reply to this, one might say that this is a matter of fate and is not given into anyone's hand. But then why this sense of repining, this repining that never ceases...
...This is the longest job I've had, and I'd hate to see it die. It'd kill me. I think it's great music. We're really saying a lot onstage, and there's a definite market for it. Somebody's just got to realize it--that's got bucks...
Sills' last regular appearances will be in a series of performances of Die Fledermaus at the San Diego Opera in October 1980. Her co-star will be Joan Sutherland, and the two divas will alternate in the roles of Adele and Rosalinda. That should be a sizzling ticket. So should the fund-raising gala Sills hopes to star in later at the New York City Opera-exactly 25 years after her debut there as Rosalinda. Said Sills: "In 1980, I will be 51. I have no operas left that I want to sing. I have sung in every opera...
Joan Ganz Cooney, president of the Children's Television Workshop and a director of four corporations, on keeping up appearances at board meetings: "Sure, it's a killer. But I'm determined to die pretty...