Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pass anything," one participant said when he heard of the plan, "people will regard this as just another example of social scientists living and working together...
...stars out of the recording "artists," a British group of young men (19 to 26) called the New Vaudeville Band. Ed Sullivan put them on his show when they arrived in the U.S. on tour recently, and Johnny Carson grabbed them for a Tonight stint. Even Walter Cronkite, who heard that the seven-piece band was appearing in a New York borscht belt hotel called the Pines, chased upstate after the boys on the day after Thanksgiving to do a bit on them for his news program...
...string of firsts for the Dallas Civic Opera. The company, in fact, like its older cousins in San Francisco and Chicago, has introduced so many topflight opera singers to the U.S.-among them Joan Sutherland, Montserrat Caballe, Jon Vickers-that its productions are like previews of what will be heard later...
Michael Ellman's sailor was sweet, if a little out of tune, and Joyce Gregorian's voice and musicianship as the 2nd woman were pleasant when she could be heard. In the more important role of Belinda, Maureen McGuire sang gracefully, although her tone was occasionally a little too tgiht. Her unhurried and slightly restrained approach to her role was effective. Akiva Kaminski was curiously costumed as Aeneas, with what looked like a red Coop scarf around his neck. A baritone singing a tenor role, he sang most of his part with an annoying wobble, and sounded strained...
...reader does not get far into this book before beginning to suspect that it is a put-on. Who ever heard of the long-nosed bandicoot? Or the brolgas, which break into a wild, wing-flapping dance at the sound of a bell? How about the racquet-tailed drongo, and the mudskipper, a hippopotamus-shaped fish that likes to skitter across mud flats and climb mangrove roots? Or the mallee fowl, which assiduously builds an incubator for its eggs and keeps the temperature inside at a steady 95°, come rain or shine? Curious specimens these, but Naturalist Gerald Durrell...