Word: grass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BRAHMS: GERMAN REQUIEM (Deutsche Grammophon; 2 LPs). "Blessed are they that mourn," softly sings the chorus, and soon the sad saraband begins ("For all flesh is as grass"). At length the black solemnity is relieved by the soaring soprano voice of Gundula Janowitz singing "I will see you again." A powerful, rhythmically relentless performance by Herbert von Karajan, the Berlin Philharmonic and the Vienna Singverein...
...himself sitting only one foot away from the hole, on the par-four eighteenth. Yale's number-one player, sophomore Jim Rogers, was also shooting his fourth shot, but he was over 30 feet away in the rough. Campen calmly watched Rogers putt the ball through the three inch grass, over the apron, across the green, and into...
...Citizens' Emergency Committee declared June 21 National Recreation Day and wrote the governors of the 50 states asking support of "play rights" and "grass rights" (words which struck a certain sensitive chord among those interested in civil rights) and arranged for an outing on the riverbank that...
...studied this year's entries for the Derby, I slowly came to the conclusion that no one was capable of winning Saturday's race. I was in a quandry until I came across the chart of the Blue Grass Stakes at Kenneland Race Track, one of the many possible stepping-stones to the Derby. The race was won by Lucky Debonair, an invader from the West Coast, in the lightning-fast time of 1:49. In the Blue Grass, a horse by the name of Swift Ruler came from ten lengths behind and battled it out with Lucky Debonair...
Swift Ruler, who nearly upset Lucky Debonair in the Blue Grass, is going to win the Derby. As a two-year old he raced in the Chicago area, winning five of nine races against fairly good competition at short distances. This spring Swift Ruler's trainer shipped him to Oaklawn Park, a very low-class track in Arkansas. He won four races with case, and seemed to prefer long distances, though his wins came against rotten opposition...