Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Apologies & Diamonds. Princess Elizabeth's 21st birthday party in Cape Town will be the last grand ceremonial of the African tour. There will be more salutes, more reviews, more fireworks, and another grand ball. There will be state presents for everyone: a gold box full of diamonds (to put on his Garter star) for the King; an engraved gold tea service for the Queen, 17 graduated diamonds for Margaret-and for Elizabeth herself, 21 graduated brilliant-cut diamonds interspersed with baguettes to string on a necklace. For Elizabeth that day will mean also a rise in income from...
...anniversary of her sister's death. Sister Lili died in 1918, a few years after winning the coveted Grand Prix de Rome.* Nadia considered her sister's talent greater than her own. In the large, cold chapel of Paris' La Trinite Church, 100 people gathered to attend a low Mass for Lili. As she does every year, Nadia Boulanger had arranged a music program in Lili's memory. Nadia sat in a front pew; she did not play the organ music-though she is a top organist...
High point of the week will be the Friday performance at New York, which will take place at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in the Grand Ballroom...
Hope-and a Shudder. "On the opposite side of Rome, indeed in another country altogether, a top official of the Vatican's Secretariat of State summed up soberly: 'Russia's grand contribution to liberty with its battle against Naziism is and will forever remain admirable. Yet the fact is that this decision of America's brings the promise of liberty to millions, and liberty for all peoples there must be, whoever brings it. But the real task remains-to find exact definitions for the words "liberty, democracy, justice" . . . that are everywhere acceptable and applicable. Because...
Last week, after the U.S. premiere of Messiaen's harsh, ascetic Hymne pour grand Orchestre, Manhattan music critics also failed to agree. Growled the New York Times: "... A slightly varied and highly diluted version [of Le Sacre...