Word: elena
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life is built around his preparations for kingship. The government pays his living expenses, estimated at $43,000 a year, and provides him the elegant 20-room Zarzuela Palace. There he lives with his wife, Princess Sophia of Greece, whom he married in 1962, and-their children, Elena, 5, Cristina, 4, and Felipe...
Nabokov's mother, Elena Ivanovna, who lived on in exile until 1939, read aloud to Vladimir in three languages. More important, she encouraged his attempts at poetry and nourished his susceptibility to sound and color. Mother and son shared a strong sense that certain colors and certain letters of the alphabet are related?p was an unripe apple green, for instance; y's and u's had a brassy "olive sheen." Matching colors and letters, Nabokov evolved a new private word, Kzspygv, which meant but did not spell "rainbow...
...rarely heard onstage, for since Giuditta Pasta introduced it in 1831, only a handful of sopranos have felt equal to the task of impersonating one of the most complex, heroic and appealing roles in opera. The latest soprano in the noble line of Normas is blonde Greek-Argentine Elena Suliotis, 25, who makes the role's demands sound like a cinch. But to entice those who already own the superb Callas Norma, or Sutherland's less successful try, London has reduced this album's price by cutting the score. Yet quality prevails. Everyone involved-from engineers...
...plain but brave Bolivian soldier, who has just crushed the Castro-Communist intruders, giving thus a breath of relief to the Americas. J. L. COóRDOVA ELENA SALINAS A. J. CALDERON La Paz, Bolivia...
...last week in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, 24-year-old Greek Soprano Elena Suliotis went about rehearsing a concert version of Norma with the American Opera Society as if she had never heard any of this. Her attitude: "What is there to be afraid of?" She soon found out. When the lights went up for the intermission, the audience discovered in its midst not only a daunting array of singers from the past but also the diva of divas, Callas, enthroned in a corner box. Immediately the entire house turned in claque-like obeisance to Callas; galvanized...