Word: leone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of the finest solo talents in the U.S. turned up for one-night stands: Singers George London, Blanche Thebom, Leontyne Price, Robert McFerrin, Pianist Byron Janis, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Still to come are Pianist Leon Fleisher, Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick, Singers William Warfield, Eleanor Steber, Harry Belafonte. The world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's opera Maria Golovin will take place in Brussels, and some performers from the Newport Jazz Festival will appear. The most cherished scheme of U.S. Performing Arts Coordinator Jean Dalrymple: to find a well-heeled angel who will underwrite a live run of Pajama Game...
...Lure of Paris. The assured tone of De Gaulle's telegram set the diehards back on their heels. They quickly discovered that they were being "betrayed" not only by De Gaulle but by some of their local heroes as well. Leon Delbecque, the zealot wool salesman who got the settlers and soldiers together in the first place (TIME, June 9), returned from a flying trip to France "to see my sick daughter," full of penitence for his earlier fiery criticisms of De Gaulle's Cabinet. He unctuously proclaimed: "Unity behind General de Gaulle must be complete . . . We must...
...well knew, lay a stern and pivotal mission. He hoped in time to end the Algerian Moslems' four-year-old war for independence. But first he had to end the threat of civil war posed by the insurgent French soldiers and settlers of Algeria. Only the day before, Leon Delbecque, dynamic leader of the rebel junta (TIME, June 9), his once boundless faith in De Gaulle shaken by his idol's failure to name a single insurgent leader to a government post, had appeared in Paris to warn the general that unless De Gaulle revamped his Cabinet...
...Congressmen and grim pedagogues have proposed a "crash program" for science in the secondary schools. But the problem is not only science; a New Republic feature article disclosed that three quarters of the students in the South--on into their freshman classes at college--couldn't identify Aaron Burr, Leon Trotsky, Martin Luther, or Aristotle ("one of Christ's disciples," wrote a college freshman). Parents, employers, and college instuctors are discovering that great percentages of youth can't spell properly, read quickly, write legibly, or express themselves comprehensibly...
...following students will receive the degree of Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude: Paul Frank Baum, Mathematics; John Paul Blass, Biochemical Sciences; Everett Clarence Dade, Mathematics; Jared Mason Diamond, Biochemical Sciences; Richard Wayne Dixon, Engineering and Applied Physics; Robert Allen Gorman, Government; Stanley Dale Harris, English; Leon William Hoyer, Biochemical Sciences; Jonathan Kozol, English; Dexter Wayne Lawson, Biology; Ralph Arnold Walter Lehman, Biology; James Richard Lehrich, Biology; Joseph Salem Lelyveld, History and Literature; Keith Merritt Lindgren, Biochemical Sciences; James Robert McCredie, History and Literature; Michael Ned Margolies, Biology; Calvin Cooper Moore, Mathematics;; Robert Anthony Myers, Engineering and Applied Physics; Robert...