Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Royal College of Surgeons, was well aware that ever since 19th century critics dubbed El Greco an "astigmatic lunatic" the sight defect thesis had often been offered. But Trevor-Roper's research was carefully prepared. Flashing a slide projection of El Greco's famed Portrait of the Grand Inquisitor Don Fernando Nino de Guevara on one side of the lecture-hall screen, he pointed out that an astigmatic person sees an upright figure thinner and longer, a horizontal shape shorter and thicker. Next to the exact image he then projected a second slide of the same portrait-this...
Negro singers are still rare enough in grand opera to be news to the public and to make managers self-conscious about what roles to give them. Two possible answers: Carmen, the gypsy girl, and Aïda, the Ethiopian slave. But they are also taxing debut parts, both vocally and dramatically. Last week, on opera stages 4.000 miles apart, two of the most promising of the U.S.'s young Negro singers appeared in Carmen and Aïda to audience cheers...
...move in a group of three or four--you are judged, accepted, and perhaps rejected collectively) are swept into the dazzling warm uproar inside. You feel the soft depth of the rug beneath your feet and can see a bright, glittering, well-groomed haze all around you. Up the grand stairway, lined with upperclassmen clapping and cheering, until you reach the top where beaming and blushing abashedly you sign your name and receive the dark blue and red and yellow and green striped club tie from the president. A final huzzah then you and the rest turn with relish...
...statistics of delinquency form the background of the crisis which blew up with the Brooklyn grand jury investigation of school crime. Judge Samuel Leibowitz and Superintendent of Schools William Jansen traded charges and countercharges. The Board of Education hinted that the tragic suicide of junior high principal George Goldfarb resulted from a member of the jury's threat that he might be indicted on unspecified charges...
When Senior died, Junior stepped naturally into his shoes as Grand Old Man of Paris. Yet he continued as "the sworn foe of adultery" with increasing success until his late 60s, when he fell in love with Henriette Escalier, a married woman young enough to be his granddaughter. She became his mistress; after she managed to divorce her husband and Dumas' wife died, they were married, five months before Dumas' death (1895). "I have sometimes seriously thought of entering a monastery," he groaned sometime before his last marriage...