Word: gardened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mary Garden, and as debuts go, her magical performance at Paris' Opéra Comique that night might have been staged by her fairy godmother. The year was 1900, and Mary, Scotland-born and Chicago-reared, was an impoverished young soprano who haunted rehearsals at the Comique. Her moment came when, during a performance of Gustave Charpentier's Louise, the lead soprano suddenly collapsed after the second act. Panic-stricken, the director asked Mary if she could fill in. Though she had never sung on a stage before, much less with an orchestra, she pluckily replied: "Have...
...Mary Garden went on to become one of the most celebrated divas of all time, bringing to the stage a radiance and mystery that, as one critic wrote, "made young men dream and old men think of adventures they never had." Her career spanned three decades, and when she died last week of pneumonia at 92, there were none who could dispute her proud litany: "I began at the top. I stayed at the top. I left...
...Wheel Man, who looks out on Manhattan's turbulent Fifth Avenue from the garden of the Guggenheim Museum, could be a symbol of the instability of man's environment, as well as a study of motion itself...
Klingsiek's victory is likely to benefit many another ex-Nazi. Sentenced to 14 years in 1965, for example, Auschwitz Adjutant Robert Mulka was sprung for health reasons five months later. In a widely published picture, Mulka was recently shown puttering in his Hamburg garden. Since the picture was sneaked without his permission, Mulka may feel that he now has a good privacy case. On the other hand, the statute of limitations has not run out on crimes committed by still uncaught Nazis. If and when they are found, the press may be entitled to publish their pictures...
...that are not designed to prepare students for conquering the dry, factual state Regents exams. But educators believe that in the long run such courses help students establish values and concepts that will hold good throughout their lives. "The goal is discovery," says J. William Dodd, assistant to the Garden City superintendent. "We want to present issues and problems and let the kids solve them by themselves...