Word: gardens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seven, T. S. Eliot produced a biography of George Washington which concluded with the memorable line: "And then he died, of corse." James Thurber began his career with a poem of which only the title is still extant: "My Auntie Margery Albright's Garden, 185 South 5th Street, Columbus, Ohio...
...answer is as tantalizing as her question: "There is no contradiction, once you stop to think what images of beauty arise from fairy tales. They are images of money. Gold, caskets of gold, caskets of silver . . . the cave of Ali Baba stored with stolen gold and silver, the underground garden in which Aladdin found jewels growing on trees ... A wholly materialist city is nothing but a dream incarnate. Venice is the world's unconscious: a miser's glittering hoard . . . This is the spirit of the enchantment under which Venice lies, pearly and roseate, like the Sleeping Beauty, changeless...
...Port Said. At one point corpses were piled nearly as high as a man's head in three sheds and covered the entire back lawn of the hospital. When Dr. Hoseny showed me around two of the sheds were still well filled, as was much of the garden...
...While studying in Paris she met her husband, a Spanish journalist named Luis Rodriguez, lost him 14 months later (he died of a liver ailment), two days before she was to sing a command performance of Le Cog d'Or at London's Covent Garden. She went on (as the Queen of Shema-khan) despite the tragedy, now thinks "singing helped...
Mattiwilda (a contraction of the names of her maternal grandmother) made her U.S. stage debut with the San Francisco Opera a year ago, was back in Covent Garden last February when word came that the Met wanted her to sing four Gildas this season. She was asked to keep it a secret until the opera made the announcement, so her only celebration was to sing "especially well that night...