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...vegetables began flying in Act II when Don José finished singing the Flower Song. Mezzo-Soprano Resnik, unable to make her voice heard, regally glared at the howlers in Paradise and cried: "Silence!'' The swells in the orchestra shouted "Bravo, Carmen!" while the locals in Paradise shouted "Behead her!" After four minutes Mezzo-Soprano Resnik managed to quiet the gallery and proceed. Although the rest of the performance was a triumph for both Resnik and Martell, the hecklers obstinately showered the stage with leeks after the final curtain...
Magpie's Hut. Crick and Watson did their work in a shabby shack sandwiched between the imposing academic buildings on the flower-bordered lawns of Cambridge. In one corner of this laboratory (known locally as The Hut), they had a magpie's nest of old books and model molecules strung like mobiles from the ceiling. Debonair and carefully dressed, Crick always managed to look incongruous there; Watson, tieless, rumpled and far more casual in his dress, fitted the picture perfectly. New Zealand-born Wilkins, tall, blond and courtly in the British manner, worked with Dr. Rosalind Franklin...
Author Rombauer, widowed since her husband's death in 1930, became a celebrity of sorts. Fan mail, at the rate of 2,000 letters a day, streamed into her St. Louis home; the Cordon Bleu and London's Flower School brought out an English edition of The Joy of Cooking; the story goes that an eloping bride sent her family a cable-AM MARRIED. ORDER ANNOUNCEMENTS. SEND ME ROMBAUER COOKBOOK AT ONCE...
...classes Pennington, a teaching fellow, uses the "new critic" method of intensive textual analysis. He strongly opposes the "precious flower" approach to literature which deals in general appreciation and fears that intensive analysis destroys the beauty of a work...
Hawaii's political season was in full flower last week. The race that is attracting the most interest: the contest to succeed U.S. Senator Oren E. Long, 73, a Democrat who is retiring. The opponents: Dillingham, 46, the scion of Hawaii's most prominent haole (white) family, and Democratic Representative Daniel Ken Inouye, 38, the first U.S. Congressman of Japanese descent...