Word: homeness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bouncy, Connecticut-born Soprano Eileen Farrell, 39 who at 185 pounds (she weighed 220 last year) is still too big for the Metropolitan Opera's tastes, came home from her first European tour, on which she wowed audiences at both ends of the musical spectrum. Eileen opened her tour in London's Albert Hall with a well-acclaimed program of Wagner, Weber, Verdi and Puccini. Moving on to Italy, she popped up at Gian Carlo Menotti's Spoleto Music Festival. Commented she, after an exhausting Requiem: "Verdi must have hated sopranos!" She also belted...
...teetering in fourth place by virtue of virtuous Bob Turley's one-hitter against Washington. What happens next is anyone's guess. It may not be baseball, but the fans love it. Attendance is up 15% for the league, and a ringing 38% for the Yankees at home. As for the bookmakers, all the yak about the Yankees could not be sillier. They have the Yankees as 8 to 5 favorites to win: Cleveland is 4 to 1, Chicago and Detroit 5 to 1. and the rest of the league does not even count...
...Wimbledon's sweltering center court, Maria kept her nerves under control. Not a flicker of emotion crossed her face as she slammed home crushing serves and front-court volleys to win 6-4, 6-3. Then Brazil's pretty brunette tennis queen sank her head into her hands and had a good...
...leaders: "They have missed the boat. 'Thou shall no kill.' they say, and then one of them walks comfortingly to the death chamber with Caryl Chessman.''). Some of the material springs from his own checkered life (the son of divorced parents, he ran away from home at twelve). His political routines recall Of Thee I Sing with some venom added, as when Ike says to Sherman Adams: "All right, Sherm, you can level with me, baby. What else did you take? . . . Delaware? How could you do a thing like that...
...another kind of harmony, the Pope hoped that the forthcoming Ecumenical Council (TIME, Feb. 9) will move non-Catholic Christians to join the Church as a "wonderful manifestation of unity . . . When we lovingly invite you to the unity of the Church, we are inviting you not to the home of a stranger but to your own, to the Father's house which belongs...