Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest singer, Enrico Caruso, made his debut in Rigoletto in 1903, sang 607 performances of 36 operas in the next 17 seasons, and transformed the Met into a genuinely popular house. Soprano Geraldine Farrar, trailed by a worshipful female fan club of self-styled "gerryflappers," reigned with him. But Arturo Toscanini, with Gustav Mahler, the greatest of the Met's conductors, deftly cut his singers to size, and in only seven seasons changed the house from a kind of glorified star club into a smooth-functioning repertory theater. During one rehearsal, temperamental Soprano Farrar turned...
...Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge, Mass. He was dean of Trinity Cathedral in Newark from 1941-48, spent the next three years as professor of pastoral theology at Manhattan's General Theological Seminary. Handsome, jovial "Lichty" Lichtenberger, onetime choir boy, football player and still a devoted Milwaukee Braves fan, holds a solid middle ground between high and low church. He is also known as a wheel in the ecumenical movement. When he heard of his election in Miami Beach, Bishop Lichtenberger went for a swim and wryly told his wife that he would like to keep right on swimming...
Liberally spiced with song-and-dance routines, the plot revolves around the story of a fan of the National Pastime who sells his soul to the devil for the chance of leading his team to a pennant victory over the Yankees. Improbable as the plot may sound, especially the part about the Yankees' losing the pennant, it does provide an interesting background for the music...
...dock for the slimmed-down crooner to record a tearful Christmas message to one and all (to be sold commercially), and drawl a quote or two for 100 waiting newsmen. Brightly confessing that his ideal girl was "female," Elvis showed why as he leaned down to give an impassioned fan a farewell nuzzle...
...fault, it is that he gives his first loyalty to the theater, something that not even an actress can forgive. But in any case, Emily no longer matters much to Tom. It is Rhoda, his first wife and only love, who fills his thoughts. Any Marquand fan knows what happens next: a flashback (by the best flashback man in the business since Proust) that illuminates the whole life, the loyalties and griefs, the prejudices and honest confusion of a man of good will who lives in a world he helped to make but does not like...