Word: eleazar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wampus was followed by Eleazar, class of 1679. Disease killed Eleazar before graduation, but he left as proof of his academic progress an elegiac poem in Latin and Greek on the death of the Rev. Thomas Thacher...
Last week the 90-member St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and its conductor, Eleazar de Carvalho, packed up, bade Kiel a long-awaited farewell, and began life anew in Powell Symphony Hall, named for Shoe Executive Walter S. Powell, whose widow had provided a generous endowment for the move. But unlike the new concert halls in Manhattan and Los Angeles, Powell is no monument to architectural modernity. As befits one of the nation's oldest professional orchestras,* the hall is actually the 42-year-old St. Louis Theater, a prime specimen of the garish era of movie-palace construction...
Perhaps the most dramatic discovery was made by a group of volunteers who unearthed eleven small, mysterious potsherds. Each was inscribed in Hebrew with a different name, one of which was that of Eleazar Ben Ya'ir, the leader of the Zealots. "Could it be," asks Yadin, "that we had discovered evidence associated with the death of the very last group of Masada's defenders?" The answer, he feels, is suggested by Josephus' description of the last moments of Masada: They then chose ten men by lot out of them, to slay all the rest . . . and when...
...years ago, St. Louis summoned Conductor Eleazar de Carvalho from Brazil to take over its ailing orchestra, and Conductor de Carvalho, 49, lost no time in letting the patrons know what they could expect. "I am a man of the avant-garde," he said in his first press conference. "We must do something to open their ears...
...ringing fortissimo. Tucker uses that voice with precise intelligence, lightening and darkening his tone to convey a whole range of feeling. Among the roles that he has not yet sung at the Met are two that contributed to Caruso's fame: Canio in Pagliacci and the old man Eleazar of Halevy's La Juive, which has not been given at the Met since Martinelli sang it in 1936. Explains Tucker: "Pagliacci tears every fiber of your body. I'm still growing. When I'm 50, I'll be ready. The pinnacle of my career will...