Word: hearded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question were Ellington at Eight on the Loeb mainstage, and Out of the Reach of Children at Kirkland House: there were many flaws of an obvious kind in both shows--the rare ability of the Ellington singers to sing just off-key and just too quiet to be heard; the fact that the music of Out of the Reach of Children was not so much derivative as rehashed--yet there were more important reasons why Out of the Reach of Children was in its own terms a great show, and why Ellington at Eight so poor...
Lewis A. Armistead, assistant vice president for government and community affairs, said yesterday he had not heard anything recently about the playgrounds. The matter "came up a few years ago, but nobody has mentioned it for quite a while. I don't think it's a problem," he added...
Once corporations have a woman director, says Janet Jones-Parker, an executive recruiter who is chairman of Management Woman, Inc., "there is a certain comfort level of 'Well, we have our woman now.' " Indeed, one of the chief executives at the breakfast was heard to wonder aloud: "I don't know why I was invited. We already have a woman on our board." Another problem for women is that most of them do not yet have jobs as senior as those of the men who get on boards. Says Rosalie Wolf: "Much of the job market...
...this with a mixed but emphatic response. There were cheers for the buoyant conducting of James Levine and the splendid ensemble of Soprano Carol Neblett Tenor William Lewis, Bass-Baritone José van Dam and Bass Paul Plishka. The applause for Ponnelle was mixed with full-throated booing sounds, heard often enough on the Continent but rarely at the Met. New York audiences like their Wagner to be conventional...
This may explain why such crafty old twirlers as Ring Lardner, James Thurber, Damon Runyon and P.G. Wodehouse spun tales about the sport. Usually they played it for laughs. Lardner's Alibi Ike dealt with a peculiar rookie, using comic vernacular: "I've heard infielders complain of a sore arm after heavin' one into the stand, and I've saw outfielders tooken sick with a dizzy spell when they've misjudged a fly ball. But this baby can't even go to bed without apologizin', and I bet he excuses himself...