Word: hearse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Composer Liebermann got his idea from a news clipping he read two years ago. Blending it with Homer's Odyssey, Librettist Heinrich Strobel wove a modern story about a war widow (Penelope) who remarries, then hears that her husband (Ulysses) is still alive and about to return. When she...
Franz Kafka's The Trial is a parable of modern man's vague, gnawing anxiety; the accused never learns the charge or the evidence against him. The U.S. Senate, in its repeated and unsuccessful efforts to pass judgment on Joe McCarthy, keeps writing an even more modern parable...
Chicago's 57-year-old Meyer Kestn-baum, who has probably heard the yarn more often than anyone else, still laughs every time he hears it; it is part of his job. As president of Hart Schaffner & Marx, he heads the biggest men's ready-to-wear company...
In most respects it was a typical Oklahoma primary, but there was a new feature: this was the first time that troops have been used. Murray ordered the National Guard out after getting reports that votes were being bought in five counties. The Daily Oklahoman dismissed as a futile gesture...
If ever the nation gets a chance to hear he voice of the U.S. public-school teacher, it seldom hears it so clearly as when the powerful (561,708 members) National Education Association holds its annual convention. Last week, as some 20,000 teachers and administrators wound up their N.E.A...