Word: lear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...judge came to marry the happy couple in their motel suite. Another Ford plane took them to Nassau in the Bahamas. Waiting there was a Boeing 707 that Niarchos had chartered from BOAC to take them to Zurich (price: roughly $40,000). From there, they boarded his own Lear jet for the last leg of the trip to St. Moritz. When they got there, they headed straight for a hotel instead of Niarchos' own mountainside chalet. Why? Because in the chalet was Eugenie Livanos, his newest exwife, and their four children...
...What gives him nobility and heroism, what defines him as not simply a lecher but a rebel against God, is Mozart's music. "An F-sharp doesn't have to be considered in the mind; it scores a direct hit," Leonard Bernstein points out. "Think of King Lear in an opera. He'd be raging as no Lear could ever rage in a spoken play: in a great bass voice, with a frantic high G-flat, a howling chorus offstage, and 90 players helping...
...slapdash way, Woman is an eccentric comic parody of King Lear. Mrs. Lord is a solid-gold widow of 75, with nothing on her Bostonian brain but freshly dyed hair and a yen for yachts. Lear courts catastrophe when he parts with his realm; Mrs. Lord gets into trouble when her daughters fear that she will squander her fortune on herself. Lear is cast out on the storm-blasted heath and loses his mind; Mrs. Lord is kidnaped after a Boston Symphony concert and railroaded to a loony...
...reductions and some ardent wooing of company executives by Cavanagh have stemmed the flight of industry from Detroit, brought a new Chrysler foundry, expansion of G.M.'s Cadillac and Ternstedt facilities, new plants for Budd Co. and Lear Jet Corp.-Detroit's first large-scale industrial construction in 35 years...
...Part Two-which differs from Part One as King Lear differs from Romeo and Juliet-the action shifts from the physical to the metaphysical plane. The hero descends into the creative unconscious (Die Mutter) to find the feminine principle (Helena) that can save his soul from damnation by inspiring him to creative activity. After many agonizing struggles, Helena is won and Faust is saved-at the moment of death, he is creatively reclaiming land out of the sea, consciousness out of unconsciousness...