Word: hilda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...large, uninteresting reception room at the society, Aida stands and Hilda sits. Aida is 16 and a beauty, her brown-and-pink skin made to glow against a long-sleeved off-white blouse so elegant as to seem part of a royal costume. Hilda at six is no beauty yet, but she has possibilities, and ambition. Her loud red knee socks exactly match her huge square purse. She wears the purse on her chest, hanging from her neck. Her eyes sparkle at everything that is said, but she says nothing herself, content to listen to Um Khalil, Aida...
...acquired taste, like eating snails. A boy growing up in the Midwest wants a dog. It's a macho thing." Later in life, though, Reed's attitudes softened enough for him to work at writing poetry in a study shared with two Siamese cats-Emily and Hilda, named after Poets Emily Dickinson and Hilda Doolittle. That blend of interest in the literary and the feline eminently qualified Reed to write this issue's cover story on America's love-hate relationship with cats...
...Enfant was first produced in 1925, George Balanchine, then 21, provided the incidental choreography. But noble lineage does not burden this opera in the way that it does Satie's Parade, probably because it offers ample possibilities for different interpretations. The little boy (played by Mezzo-Soprano Hilda Harris) defies his mother, wrecks a pendulum clock, trashes a teapot, tears his books, rips the wallpaper off the wall, pulls the cat's tail and more...
...students from Harvard, however, have participated in this week's anti-registration efforts, Hilda Marshall, a member of the Radcliffe-Harvard Peace Alliance (RHPA), said, adding, "Most of (the RHPA members) are in the library studying...
Statehood proponents argue that the Amendment may not be the best method. "With the Voting Rights Amendment, we only get representation in Congress," Hilda Mason, city council member and chairman of the Statehood Initiative Committee, says. "With statehood, we get this and local autonomy," she adds...