Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JACOB LATEINER, a vintage pianist who speaks of wines the way fellow musicians speak of him: "The very great ones need time to develop; they must mature in their own time." See Music...
Inevitably, the wreckers are wrenching a few heartstrings. Frantic efforts to save the venerable, 83-year-old opera house ended in failure last week as the Old Met Opera House Corp., whose trustees included Soprano Licia Albanese and U.S. Senator Jacob Javits, admitted "with a heavy heart" that it was unable to raise the $8 million to $12 million needed to save the building. Commented the New York Times: "It is live opera that opera lovers support, not dead houses...
...hard way. Some, like Frederic Remington, rode with the cavalry; others, like Charles Russell, rode the range as cowboys. Each immortalized the West he knew. Albert Bierstadt portrayed the Rockies; George Caleb Bingham the riverboatmen he first knew as a boy on the Missouri. To William Jacob Hays, the buffalo was already a hulking ghost in the dawn of a new day, while James Walker captured another vanishing species, the Spanish vaquero...
...Latin, Caesar. Actually, the operation predates even the first Caesar by centuries. It is one of the oldest on record, but was performed only after the mother had died. The first known caesarean on a living woman was performed about 1500 by one Jacob Nufer, an accomplished Dutch sow-gelder, who used a razor for surgery on his wife. She not only survived, but went on to bear him six more chil dren, all by normal births...
...Jacob's Pillow, near Lee, Mass., where Ted Shawn's dance festival features a cross section of ballet, modern and ethnic dance in a barnlike theater. Twelve new works will be seen...