Word: manly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...review of the opera Jenufa. "Atrocious drama and wretched theater," complained a New York Times critic after a 1931 performance of From the House of the Dead. Through years of such disasters,Janáček (pronounced Ya-na-chek) remained a proud, angry man who longed desperately for recognition and stubbornly believed that his peculiar brand of musicmaking would be vindicated. Now, four decades after his death, the often maligned composer is winning the recognition and admiration denied him during his life...
...onto music paper. Czech Conductor Karel Ančerl, now music director of the Toronto Symphony, recalls the first time he saw Janáček: "I was returning home from a party with a few friends. A full moon lighted the park, and suddenly we saw a stocky man in a long overcoat talking to some birds. He was saying, 'Please talk to me, speak to me. I must hear your music, I must have it.' When the birds flew away, he would chase after them for a few feet, crying to them all the while. When...
...soaring, jagged work for chorus, orchestra and soloists that has sometimes been used in Czech Catholic liturgical ceremonies. The Mass was a salute to nature, not God, and as usual Janáček's critics missed the point. After its premiere, one wrote sardonically that "the old man" was apparently turning to belief in God. Janáček answered with a bristling postcard: "No old man, no believer. Not till I see for myself." Janáček stuck by his unbeliefs till the last. As he lay dying, a nurse asked him if he would like...
...water that lies about 100 miles north of San Francisco. For centuries, it was home for a large colony of Western grebes, lovely birds that swim with the stately grace of swans and dive as skillfully as loons. But 15 years ago, in an environmental tragedy unwittingly perpetrated by man, large numbers of grebes began dying off, and the once-clear waters of the lake turned murky and green. Now, by introducing a new ecological cycle, scientists have saved Clear Lake's grebes and even clarified its water...
Also on the way out is Arte Johnson, the show's man of miens since the first season. So far this year, Johnson has taped guest appearances on specials with Frank Sinatra Jr., Flip Wilson and Jimmy Durante. Coming up are four more guest shots, and an Arte Johnson special is on tape and ready to be run. NBC is also deep in discussion of an "Arte Johnson Show" for next season, which would not only pull Arte from the Laugh-In ranks but make him a guest star on any return visits...