Word: lionesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Elsa, 5, 300-lb. lioness-companion of Mrs. Joy Adamson, a Kenya game warden's wife who recounted her pet's half-domesticated, half-savage career in Born Free, one of 1960's top bestsellers; of undetermined natural causes; in the Kenya jungle. Taken in by Mrs. Adamson as an orphaned cub, Elsa slept, ate and played with the Adamsons for three happy years until they reluctantly returned her to jungle freedom, from which she would re-emerge periodically to show off to them her own three cubs...
...consciousness as profound as the roles of father and son, husband and wife. Her mood-dry, elegiac, wounded yet unbleeding-strongly echoes that of the aristocratic author of the brilliant 19th century Sicilian chronicle and recent bestseller, The Leopard; this somehow befits a woman whose African nickname was "Honorable Lioness" and whose real name and title are the Baroness Karen Blixen...
Born Free, by Joy Adamson. Even readers who do not dig cats should enjoy this remarkable, engaging account of how the author-rivaling Androcles-managed to turn a lioness into a household tabby...
...Kitty Litter, this one is not sentimental. The subject, a female felis leo somaliensis, is too big for that. This great creature was the pet and pride of Joy Adamson, a Kenya game warden's wife, and she has communicated the delight and wonder of life with the lioness experienced by herself and her husband George...
...place in the opera that has not drawn applause at La Scala in years), got many more ovations as she ranged effortlessly from finespun pianissimos to brilliantly ringing fortes. "Brava, Leonessa!" cried someone in the audience, while a second voice corrected: "She is more like a panther than a lioness." Said one critic: "Our great Verdi would have found her the ideal Aïda." When another critic regretted that Soprano Price's color might keep her from other parts, a Scala official promised that there would be no color bar: "The public will have to get used...