Word: lifelong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opera was written for Tenor Peter Pears, Britten's lifelong companion musically as well as personally. It is the latest in an imperiled series of major artistic collaborations. Britten, 59, recovering from open-heart surgery, was unable to attend rehearsals or take his customary place at the podium for the opera's premiere a fortnight ago. Steuart Bedford, an Aldeburgh regular, conducted in Britten's stead...
...cemetery for thoroughbreds. Penny Tweedy, 51, inherited the 2,600-acre farm from her father Christopher Chenery, the public utilities magnate who founded the stable. The wife of John Tweedy, executive vice president of The Oil Shale Corp., and the mother of four, Mrs. Tweedy has been a lifelong horsewoman, a rider of show horses since her childhood in Pelham Manor, N.Y. After Smith College and a stint as a Red Cross "donut dolly" in France and Germany during World War II, she entered the Columbia Graduate School of Business. The training, says the regally attractive president of Meadow Stud...
...Alas? Not exactly, for wisdom comes from loss. Pretty women, as everyone knows, are given special treatment. But beauty is a costly possession, and women pay for it by pretending that the skin is the self, and carrying on a discreet, lifelong flirtation with the world that encourages in them longer than usual the human delusion that the face you put on is really...
...Warren Court, says Simon, "wanted to teach the nation its deepest purposes and meanings. It is that special role that the Burger Court neither serves nor covets." Paradoxically perhaps, Warren, the California Governor and lifelong politician, brought to the bench an expansive and unremitting belief in the strength and power of the law; Warren Burger, the longtime lawyer and judge, came to the court believing that true strength and power reside in the political process. Change in the U.S., he has said, "is a legislative and policy process. And there is a very limited role for courts in this respect...
...probe the mysteries of the psyche. It was a childhood experience that persuaded her that movement is more revealing than words. When her father caught her in a lie, she asked how he knew. "No matter what words may say," he explained, "movement never lies." That observation became her lifelong credo...