Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senior Editor Robert Shnayerson, who wrote the Essay on auto insurance, also received an adequate supply of free advice from colleagues who happen to be policyholders. He heard all the old tales of hardhearted claim adjusters, sky-high premiums, canceled insurance. Shnayerson sympathized, but when he recounted how he had solved his own automobile problems, he had the distinct feeling, he says, that no one was ready to follow his lead...
...head of the press section, Leonid Zamyatin, warned newsmen that "serious measures" would be taken against anyone who went to talk with the two women. Four American and three Swedish journalists, who had not been delivered the official warning but heard it secondhand from their colleagues, decided to go anyway. At the door, they found a phalanx of Soviet security men, who first took their pictures, then turned them away. Inside, the two women waited in their secondfloor apartment in vain...
...when she auditioned for Bayreuth's innovation-minded director, the late Wieland Wagner, grandson of the composer. Instantly, she says, "I knew he was going to become the most important person in my life." Wieland felt the same. "When I heard her I immediately knew that there was nothing I could still teach her," he said later. The following year he overrode tradition and his family's objections and starred his unknown find in The Flying Dutchman. Also, in a move that his grandfather would have understood perfectly, Wieland, then a married man of 41, moved Anja...
Arraigned in the East Cambridge District Court last Saturday, Foote entered a plea of "not guilty." His case will be heard again on February...
...near future. The wranglings of the past two years have taken a toll; more than one long-term friendship has been strained--or snapped. In his inaugural address, Mayor Sullivan said he hoped that his administration would be one of "harmony." Though only a word, it is a word heard more frequently around City Hall these days...