Word: laureled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soprano was the daughter of a Negro carpenter from Laurel, Miss. The tenor was the son of a naval engineer from Ancona, Italy. Together on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera last week, Leontyne Price, 30, and Franco Corelli, 36, provided the most exciting debut night of the Met season. Their joint assignment: Leonora and Manrico in Verdi's Il Trovatore...
...also appear in Aïda, Butterfly, Turandot and Don Giovanni. On hand to see her debut last week were many friends and neighbors from Mississippi, who remember Leontyne as the little girl who used to play the piano at local funerals. Among the Mississippi visitors: the Chisholms of Laurel, for whom Leontyne's aunt worked as a maid, and who sent her to music school...
...current Pharaetra. Aegis-bearers John Berendt and Jeremy Johnston have avoided the inept high seriousness which has so often encumbered the Lowell House poetry magazine, and have come up with a group of pieces composed by scers, whose auburn hair Melpomene herself has no doubt bound with the fragrant laurel...
Perhaps the most fragrant laurel of all belongs to Mr. Johnston himself, whose poems have appeared all too infrequently in Cambridge publications. It would be folly to attempt to describe the delicacies of Mr. Johnston's style, his skill in blank verse, his felicity of rhyme; I must pretermit all this, even decline to mention the phrasing of his narrative, the ingenuity of his conceit. I cannot, however, refrain from remarking with highest approbation--upon his obvious familiarity with the Lesser Celandine, a flower whose possibilities have never been adequately explored; and his accurate and steadfast belief in Nymphs...
...hole in the wall that stands between them and the jeweler's safe. Spfluroosh! A jet of water jumps out of the wall-they managed to hit a pipe. And so on to the climax, which comes in one of the grandest and goofiest sight gags since Stan Laurel looked into a bathroom mirror, saw a gorilla, decided that he must need a shave...