Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dublin's shy, serious Composer Gerard Victory, 31, Ireland's harp has been silent too long. Ireland has a single professional symphony, a host of amateur choral societies which stick pretty closely to Handel's Messiah and Haydn's Creation, two opera societies which import stars for about seven weeks a year of old-fashioned grand opera, a green countryside full of amateur balladeers, and that is about all. Composer Victory decided to do something about it, last week unveiled in Dublin the world's first opera in Gaelic...
William M. Preston, director of the cyclotron laboratories, will be host to the Smith students...
...host thinks him a boor, vitriolic...
...arrived in Saigon for a six-day visit through Indo-China, including a three-hour luncheon conference with Vietnamese Chief of State Bao Dai. Later, at a luncheon in Phat Diem, south of Hanoi, Stevenson found a gambit for his humor in the tablecloth, decorated with an elephant. His host, Catholic Bishop Le Huu Tu, quickly explained: the elephant on the tablecloth was a native beast, no relation to the Republican species...
Fever Dew In Sicily. King Richard gathers his host at Vézelay in France, and there the two squires meet a brilliant young Frenchman, Guy de Passy. John is puzzled by the fellow, Robert not. "It is this manner of the great world about him that astonishes and charms you," he says to John. "I think he rates us lowly . . . myself discontented and half a monk; you a staunch simpleton . . . I would say he is one of those people who may perish of their own cleverness...