Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Louchheim started composing poems for her family, to wrap up special sentiment with Christmas or birthday presents. Most of her writing is done late at night at a desk in her Georgetown bedroom or on holiday at the family's summer house on Cape Cod, but poetry has become far more than a hobby. "My psyche demands it," she says. "It's my escape hatch...
...Russian quickly hoists three indignant signal flags: Code Kilo X-ray ("You should keep farther away"). On one occasion Hilder replied by flashing a light with a warning that U.S. subs were operating in the area. The Russian replied in clumsy English: "Thanks for warning. I are seeing submarines." Late last month the Gidrofon finally departed for its home port-probably Vladivostok. For days the Russian crew had been busy repainting the grey-green hull and white deckhouse, and touching up the crisp black Cyrillic letters of its name. U.S. helicopters hovered overhead, watching the Russians watching them...
What saved the opera from its pretentious libretto was the soaring music of Strauss, conducted with thunderous brilliance by the late composer's gifted friend, Karl Bohm. By turns raging and receding, mischievous and mystical, the orchestration powerfully underscored the mysterious gulfs between the two worlds and buttressed each role with bold, contrasting shades of vocal writing. Big, robust, infinitely rich, Die Frau was symphonic opera music-and Metropolitan Opera-at its best...
...there is an objectivity. If a man says the world is round, we run out to find someone to say it is flat." Network executives are also quick to delete any portion of a news program that might offend any powerful segment of the audience. Top management, said the late Edward R. Murrow, "with a few notable exceptions has been trained in advertising, research, sales or show business. But by the nature of the corporate structure, they also make the final and crucial decisions having to do with news and public affairs. Frequently they have neither the time...
...even after the original broadcast has already gone on the air in some parts of the country. He is determined to keep up with what he and other TV commentators like to call the "raw news," the "hard news" of day-to-day events-which is to say, the late-breaking stories that have always made up some of the liveliest stuff of journalism...