Word: grace
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). High Society (1957), with Grace Kelly forced to choose between such suitors as Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby...
...male sopranos and contraltos. These castrati, who commanded the center stage of opera for more than 100 years, until the end of the 18th century, constituted about 70% of all male singers. They postured and strutted on the stage like peacocks improvising elaborate vocal filigrees, inserting grace notes or unaccompanied passages, some of which lasted as long as the aria itself. They combined the range of the female voice with the power of the male, interposing a dizzying array of appoggiaturas, mordents, cadenzas, slides, slurs, shakes, trills, turns and leaps. For tonal purity, flexibility precision and breath control...
Buckley on welfare is the book's coup de grace. Apparently convinced there is some kind of concerted mad rush on the part of New Yorkers to get unemployed and thus get unemployment insurance. Buckley decides the answer is to make life impossible for the jobless. Stripped of its appeal, unemployment will then lose its clientele, and presto! A chicken in every pot. The same, naturally, goes for unwed mothers, who sin in the hope of higher welfare benefits. Take away the carrot, Buckley says, and matters will right themselves...
...piano and her collection of scores, never sang again, "not even to myself." She spent her last years as a kind of talent scout, holding auditions in her studio, admonishing young hopefuls to "stop studying and start singing." Though she helped the careers of dozens of singers, including Soprano Grace Moore, she sadly remarked a few years ago that she "had not found another Mary Garden." Nor has anyone else...
Hoping to stave off liquidation and gain time to arrange new financing, Intra had asked Lebanon's Commercial Court for a three-year grace period in which to repay all of its depositors. Going over Intra's books, the judges found a host of "irregularities." Among them: about 75% of its $156 million in outstanding loans had been made to Intra insiders on "virtually nonexistent" collateral. The court declared Intra bankrupt and took control of the property of its directors, including that of ex-Chief Yusif Bedas, who is now in Brazil. Pending a decision on an appeal...