Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Governor Sargent signed into law Wednesday an act that will prevent women from being served in taverns until Jan...
...opera." But as Jesus Christ Superstar began its evolution from record album to stage spectacle, Bender recognized its importance early on. Lyricist Tim Rice and Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber were putting the finishing touches on Superstar in London when Bender mentioned the imminent debut of the opera in our Jan. 12, 1970 cover story on The Band, one of the first rock groups to give penetrating treatment to religion. As soon as the Decca recording appeared last fall, he withdrew to his stereo-equipped office, emerged with an enthusiastic notice - one of the first reviews of Superstar published anywhere...
...first puzzler we join Mr. Peabody and Sherman for a ride in the "Wayback Machine." The date: Jan. 1, 1951. The place: the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans...
...hidden forks in American art history was reached on Jan. 29, 1948, when a painter named Barnett Newman painted a thin, rough orange stripe down the exact center of a small dark red canvas, and left it alone. It is hardly an exaggeration that most of the symmetrical format, stripe, minimal, and otherwise post-De Kooning art produced in New York in the '60s refers, in the end, to this modest picture that Newman called Onement I. Newman's ruthless pursuit of the implications of this canvas both split his work from the main...
...opening presentation, Germany's Joseph Cardinal Hoeffner insisted that Jesus Christ did not intend to "establish a purely human solidarity with the less privileged as though he were a 'revolutionary' on the point of overturning existing social conditions." This view was disputed by Bernard Jan Cardinal Alfrink of The Netherlands. In his view, it represented "Christ's priesthood as though it had been exercised exclusively on the cross. The whole of Christ's life was a work of mediation and reconciliation, not only his sacrifice...