Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There was, however, one surprise: Madame Sun Yatsen, the widow of the founder of the Chinese Republic, who has been denounced by the Red Guards as not being revolutionary enough, was on the stand in a place of honor. Apparently Mao felt that the prestige of her famed husband was still of some patriotic usefulness to Red China...
Forrester confesses that she accepted the role in Julius Caesar because Handel is a special favorite. Her first date with her husband-to-be followed a performance of Handel's Messiah in which she was one of the soloists. Says she: "Ever since, Whenever we hear the Messiah we say, 'Listen-they're playing our song...
...warm contralto. She is a big bundle of Scotch-Irish joviality, relaxes before a performance almost to the point of limpness. "Nervousness is bad for the breathing," she explains. Besides, "I don't have to live my reviews. I have something else to go home to"-meaning a husband, Canadian Conductor-Violinist Eugene Kash, and five children, aged two to ten. While most female opera singers shun childbirth for fear that it will some how hurt their voices, Mama Maureen insists that it has extended her range by 21 notes on top and 21 on the bottom...
...machine-tool factory to use the company's huge cutting and welding facilities, they were met with scorn. "We start work at 6:45 a.m.," the factory hands pointedly declared, fully expecting them to saunter in each day at noon. But German Sculptress Brigitte Meier-Denninghoff and her husband, Martin Matschinsky, are made of sterner stuff. Up each day at 5 o'clock, they continued working long after everyone else had gone home. Six months later, the commission-a 16-ft. stainless-steel sculpture-was completed. The workers gave the artists their highest accolade, offered to take them...
...postwar technological strides. Similar commissions by the pair, along with a large exhibition currently traveling throughout West Germany, reveal a technical facility in touch with the times. Most of the acclaim goes to Brigitte Meier-Denninghoff, 43, today ranked as Germany's leading sculptress. Her collaborator husband does not mind his relative oblivion. A former actor, he figures that she was already well on her way before they became a team in 1955. "We'd like to change the use of my maiden name," Brigitte confesses, "but it's probably too late for that...