Word: fresh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most influential and highly respected figures in American regional opera, Kelly, who also co-founded and directed the Lyric Theater of Chicago and the Performing Arts Foundation in Kansas City, shaped his companies to perform a repertory of unusual, rarely done works and to showcase fresh imported talent. Outrunning the Met, the quick impresario arranged the U.S. debuts of Joan Sutherland, Montserrat Caballé, Jon Vickers and Teresa Berganza, and in 1954 brought Manhattan-born Maria Callas back to America. Four years later, in Dallas, she presented him with the definitive Medea...
...cage and part of an arm. When a passer by heard about the bones and insisted that they must be from an animal, Hammons returned with him for a second look. "On the way back we found the clump of long black hair," said Hammons later. "It looked fresh and shiny and was about two feet long...
There was a sacramental air about it, a sense of ritual drama. Gerald Ford had just returned to the White House from Sunday morning services, fresh from partaking of the cup of Holy Communion at the historic St. John's Episcopal Church. He spoke with the same earnest, forthright piety that had moved many listeners in his Inaugural Address a month before. This time the phrases somehow seemed more sonorous: "To do what is right as God gives me to see the right ... to uphold our laws with the help of God." He had searched his conscience, the President said...
...Estate Salesman Bob Douglas, 34, of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, who claims to have sold millions of dollars worth of rocky isles. Nor is there any likelihood of an immediate island shortage. There are an estimated 1 million outcroppings off North American shores alone, plus many more thousands of fresh-water isles from the lower St. Lawrence River to the westerly straits of Lake Huron...
...state of Maine is currently inventorying some 3,350 islands off its coast. A Boston cab driver who migrated to Cutler, Me., in 1966, bought a 25-acre island near by for $2,500. Today, with a cabin and a fresh-water spring, it will fetch up to $40,000. The 2,500-acre Bartlett's Island was once a village of 300 souls. It was bought by a radio writer for $68,000. After several lucrative changes of ownership, David and Margaret Rockefeller recently became the barons of Bartlett for $750,000, a cost that marked...