Word: everests
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Strasbourg, France, last week, ribbon-cutting dignitaries opened a modest building with a grandiose name, "Palace of Human Rights." It is the first permanent home of the European Court of Human Rights, and the festivities were no sooner over than the court faced up to a judicial Everest: ruling on the language rights of northern Belgium's French-speaking minority. In the third case of its six-year history, the court's decision may also determine whether the court itself lives or dies...
AMERICANS ON EVEREST (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Orson Welles narrates a report on the conquest of Mount Everest by an American team, as seen in on-the-spot film footage. Color...
INTERNATIONAL PIANO FESTIVAL (Everest) provides an opportunity for piano lovers to hear and compare the styles of several virtuosos-Arrau, Backhaus, Brailowsky, Casadesus, Janis and Kempff-in a single benefit concert for the U.N. Commission for World Refugees. The program hitches together the warhorses of the piano repertory, but they are played with freshness and excitement. Standouts are Wilhelm Backhaus' definitive "Moonlight" Sonata, Byron Janis' unabashedly grand performance of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6, and Wilhelm Kempff's crystalline playing of Schubert's Impromptu in G Major...
...read the books you take with you." One of his own favorite unopened authors is Toynbee. Rule No. 2 is that you don't have to finish anything. Indeed, half the charm of vacation bookmanship is in returning to the same unconquered magnum opus as if to Everest. A Madison Avenue executive back from Martha's Vineyard this month confessed that he had attacked Dante's Divine Comedy for the fifth straight year, only to bog down once again in the first canto. "But," he added bravely, "I'm getting sort of fond of Inferno...
Thus, early last week, Bobby was airlifted by a Royal Canadian Air Force helicopter to the 9,000-ft.-high base camp on Mount Kennedy. With him were Seattle Sports Shop Proprietor James W. Whittaker and Ellensburg Glaciologist Barry Prather, both members of the successful American Mount Everest expedition in 1963. After an hour's elementary instruction for Bobby, the three, roped together with Bobby in the middle, set out to the high camp at 12,000 ft. The weather closed in, and it was a hard upward grind...