Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coach Pappy Hunt's runners, a much improved lot since the opening of the indoor season, will show strength in the quarter and half mile. "Middle distance men Bill Okerman, Steve Brown, and Dave Rowe, made a great deal of progress under Pappy," Stowel said earlier this week...
Last month, a young Japanese adventurer named Norio Suzuki went to Lubang to hunt down Onoda. When the two men finally met in a remote jungle clearing, the lieutenant laid down his condition: "Only in case my commanding officer rescinds my order in person will I surrender." Last weekend Suzuki returned to Lubang accompanied by former army Major Yoshimi Taniguchi, 63, a Kyushu bookseller who had been Onoda's last military superior. Dressed in a shapeless cap and a tattered uniform and clutching his old regulation infantry rifle, Onoda stood at attention as Taniguchi read out an Imperial Army...
...backstage sergeants have their favorite nightmares. Merrill's personal fear is that the five schooners that must tilt and collapse when a wind machine blows at the beginning of the opera will jam some night and halt the entire production. Another perilous moment occurs in the Royal Hunt and Storm scene in the second act. Four human ghosts must descend from 60 feet in the air into the audience's vision, while the giant turntable is about to spin forward, all without disclosing the projection equipment. Any electrical trouble then would end the evening...
...courage in taking almost all of Berlioz's bizarre imaginings literally, instead of opting for a neo-Bayreuth impressionism, is to be applauded. Still, certain directions are changed. The Royal Hunt scene calls for an allegorical pantomime ballet. That is now depicted on film. "The alternative," says Merrill, "is to have a lot of little ballet girls running around with flaming branches. They did that in the 19th century, you know. That is why so many opera houses burned down...
...that The American Mercury wanted a biographical snippet to preface one of his stories. "Don't tell the bastards anything," wrote Faulkner. "It can't matter to them." In 1958, when Saxe Commins, his longtime editor at Random House, died, Faulkner grieved: "I'll have to hunt up somebody else now who will stop anybody making the William Faulkner story the moment I have breathed my last...