Word: executrix
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third act had ended inconclusively. Opera managers vied for the chance to present the first complete performance; Liebermann made his first bid in 1950, when he was musical director of Radio Zurich. But they literally did not have a ghost of a chance. Berg's widow and musical executrix, Helene, claimed that her husband's spirit made nocturnal visitations to her in which he opposed completion. (Berg scholars have recently suggested another motive: resentment by Berg's widow of an autumnal love affair that may have partly inspired Lulu...
...solve the haunting mysteries of Eliot's life until all existing information has been studied. At the moment, the Emily Hale papers (the bulk of a life-long correspondence) are doomed to dusty confinement at Princeton until January 1, 2020; and Valerie Eliot, the poet's widow and sole executrix, has so far felt bound to carry out her husband's expressed wish that no authorized biography of him be written. Even when the unpublished material is finally released, the character which Eliot himself made every effort to hide will remain deeply perplexing. It was "not a turning loose...
Lyndon trusted his wife's business acumen and as a result named her executrix of his estate. Thus she now manages the L.B.J. business empire, conferring twice a week with the trusted lieutenants who once worked with L.B.J. himself. She also is involved in many other activities-overseeing the L.B.J. Library, serving as a regent of the University of Texas, pursuing various beautification projects. "I am head over heels in work," she says. "As an old friend put it, the hurrieder I get, the behinder I fall...
...Miller, 30. Mrs. Long also received the jointly owned property, including a Missouri farm, a home in Phoenix, Ariz., and a summer place in Wisconsin, but the bulk of Long's $770,000 estate went to his granddaughter, five-year-old Ann Elizabeth Miller; Miss Dunlop was named executrix. Under terms of the will, Miss Dunlop receives $7,500 annually...