Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That fancy dinner is cooked on a stove using bottled gas. F. & J. sometimes cook food over an open fire, but the stove is used for elaborate meals...
FOREIGN RELATIONS Faith Under Fire...
...Harry Duncan) and music. Composer Hoiby's score was deft, dramatic, highly descriptive, reminiscent of Gian Carlo Menotti, who taught Hoiby at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. The opera had tension as well as lyric elasticity, especially when the postman-lover fell into a charmed sleep by the fire and the wife sang a lilting incantation. With both audience and critics, Composer Hoiby scored a clean hit. Said Rome's daily Il Messaggero: "It is impossible to doubt Hoiby's musical quality . . . The vitality of Chekhov could not be caught better than this...
Summer fiction is life seen in bikini-scope. It covers little, and that hazily. Phoenix Island is the hot season's first literary scantyweight, and it is fitfully amusing. The scarcely disguised locale is the New York summer resort of Fire Island, but the cast of psychoneurotic summer people and scurvy natives needs to be taken with a pinch of salt water...
...better luck than Nixon," said Conductor Leonard Bernstein, "but then he's in a different line of business. All we did was play music." The New York Philharmonic was completing a 38-concert, twelve-country tour of Latin America that lit a fire of good will from one end of the continent to the other. Back home this week. Conductors Bernstein and Dimitri Mitropoulos and the 107 members of the orchestra were to be hailed at New York's city hall for a job superbly done...