Word: leah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Married. Joseph Hazziez, 37, soul singer under the name of Joe Tex who, after three 1,000,000-disk recordings (Skinny Legs and All, Hold On to What You've Got, I Gotcha), changed his beat last July to become a Black Muslim minister; and Leah Miller, 22, pre-med student; he for the second time, she for the first; in Washington...
Neither Abraham nor his wife Leah, a gifted amateur pianist, exploited their prodigy son. Instead, they created a world of tutors and home musicales in which Felix, his sisters Fanny and Rebecca and his brother Paul could grow at their own pace. Every other Sunday morning, Felix presided over a musical program at home-as conductor, pianist and master of ceremonies. He was also composer. Several of his operas, a dozen or so string symphonies, numerous concertos and cantatas were among the works thus premièred. Before he left knee breeches, in fact, Mendelssohn was a thoroughgoing musical...
Honest and Earthy. Breuer himself was finding new solutions in the intimate, beautiful houses he was designing with Gropius around Boston. His inspiration, he told TIME Reporter Leah Gordon, was the simple American frame house. "I liked the fact that anyone could construct these houses simply by nailing boards together. They are earthy, honest and dignified, like Huckleberry Finn and Abraham Lincoln...
...cheer went up for a little old lady in a print dress and a cloth coat, who wrinkled her nose and shot her right fist aloft as she walked through the gate. The crowd mobbed her when she announced in a syrupy Southern drawl that her name was Nannie Leah Washburn, and that she had traveled all the way from Atlanta to lie down in front of cars in a traffic circle. "I was born a rebel and I'll always be a rebel," she croaked, and the crowd cheered with gusto. When she told them...
...Endicott of Washington, Conn and East House (Fine Arts): Linda K. Hansen of Granby, Conn, and East House (Lingnisties and Japanese); Susan J. Schuman of New London. Conn, and East House (Fine Arts); Sarah T. Quisenberry of Highland Park, III, and East House (English); and Leah Zell Zuriff of Highland Park, III and North House (History...