Word: leopold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...master is Leopold Stokowski, who made a brilliant Met debut at 78 and on crutches (he is recovering from a broken hip). Having always been a theatrical conductor in the concert hall, he seemed completely at home in the theater, drawing all the score's turbulence from the orchestra without trying to make it the star of the show at the singers' expense. Cecil Beaton contributed dazzling if hardly daring sets, notably a kind of winged pagoda against a distant, unreal blue sky, which suggested that Turandot is not set in a real China but in an exotic...
Married. Nathan Leopold, 56, son of a millionaire Chicago box manufacturer, who teamed with Richard Loeb in 1924 to murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a Dostoyevskian crime without passion, was sentenced to life imprisonment plus 99 years, served 33 years before earning parole in 1958, and is now a graduate student of sociology at the University of Puerto Rico; and Trudi Garcia de Quevedo, 56, Baltimore-born widow who runs a flower shop in San Juan; in Castaner, Puerto Rico, in a civil ceremony kept secret for 48 hours but approved by the Illinois Parole and Pardon Board...
...once before, given rise to the countermyth: the myth of the Jew as artist, as aesthete, as hypersensitive and anxious man; and in this mask he has engaged the attention of the great novelists of our century. For the creators of Swann (but also Bloch), of Leopold Bloom, Joseph K, as well as the recreator of the Biblical Joseph, the Jew has come to reflect increasingly the problems and pressures of Western man. If he is still (or more than ever) the Outsider, he knows that he has been cast in a role that symbolically identifies him with a world...
...book he wrote with Joseph Kennedy is a study of the events in Belgium leading up to King Leopold's surrender to the Germans. It was published...
Married. Baudouin Albert Charles Leopold Axel Marie Gustave of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 30, King of the Belgians; and Doña Fabiola de Mora y Aragón, 32, gentle daughter of Spain's Marqués of Casa Riera; both for the first time; in Brussels (see FOREIGN NEWS...