Word: lucretia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since Engle's operation, California Democrats trying to see him and learn his plans have been fended off by the Senator or his wife Lucretia. Even Governor Pat Brown was turned away. "I spoke with Senator Engle on the telephone on my last trip to Washington," said the Governor, "and I tried to suggest that he invite me over to see him, but they didn't follow through." Until last week, Engle had dropped virtually from public view, appeared only in a wheelchair at President Kennedy's funeral. There, California State Chairman Eugene Wyman gently asked...
...attracts talent like a magnet. The warm contralto of the Metropolitan Opera's Lili Chookasian, the glowing mezzo-soprano of Negro Betty Allen, and the responsive, impeccable bowing of Dunn's small string sections all brightened last week's performance of Britten's Rape of Lucretia. Such artists have taught critics and audiences alike that whatever Thomas Dunn tackles musically will be worth doing and done memorably well...
...Miss X." Glyndebourne still is heaviest on Mozart (Marriage of Figaro has been done a record 114 times), but the house has also presented a good share of the Italian repertory plus the premieres of such contemporary works as Benjamin Britten's Albert Herring and Rape of Lucretia and the first English productions of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress and Hans Werner Henze's Elegy for Young Lovers. The country opera gets along on box office and private contributions. Says Christie: "We would not take a state subsidy if offered it." The uniquely local flavor...
...Army in 1945, and he took to singing wherever he could-in the WGN Theater of the Air chorus, with Skitch Henderson and his orchestra at a local nightclub, at local women's clubs. A role in Benjamin Britten's short-lived Rape of Lucretia took him to Broadway, and from there he went to London to star in a musical comedy about a prizefighter who danced about the ring beating the stuffing out of his opponent while his leading lady warbled...
...rights convention. With her blonde sausage curls bobbing in emphasis, Elizabeth Cady Stanton read: "It is the duty of the women of the country to secure for themselves the sacred right of the elective franchise." The delegates were aghast at such a daring notion. "Why Lizzie," cried Quakeress Lucretia Mott, "thee will make us ridiculous...