Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...First teach-ins and draft-card burnings dramatize student reaction to Viet...
Last week's fight marked the second time that Boxer Pimentel had done battle for the benefit of the school. The first time the school asked him; the second, he volunteered. Says Principal Culotta: "We realize now how concerned people are about education. Once aware of the problem, everyone does his best to help...
...underground press blooms with the first issue of the free-swinging Los Angeles Free Press...
...bass singer was not very good, Handel would turn the bass aria into a recitative, rewrite it for an alto or even a soprano. For flexible soprano voices, he would doll up the music with ornaments and, if another soprano complained, he would steal a few arias from the first soprano and slip them to the second. To further befuddle historians, Handel was continually juggling arias to fit whatever boy soprano, male alto or countertenor happened along. As a result, a wide range of different but thoroughly authentic "original versions" of the oratorio came into being...
...Nureyev and Fonteyn dance their first Giselle, Covent Garden...