Word: manors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...libretto tells of a simple shepherd who descends from the Pyrenees into the worldly "Tiefland" (the Lowland) to marry his master's doxy. When he mistakenly suspects that his bride's inclination is still to the manor bed, he at first considers stabbing her, later hits on the happier solution of strangling the landowner and loping back to the hills with his wife in his arms. This tale is set to an expansive, thickly melodic score which rarely bears any relation to the frenzies on stage but occasionally strikes some fine Straussian and Puccinian sparks. Recorded...
STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET, by Evan Hunter (375 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $4.50). Nature is easily kept in check by powered lawn mowers in suburban Pinecrest Manor, an hour from Broadway, but human nature creates a thick underbrush of sin and suffering. With the dull Cape Cods, the boring neighbors, the endless trivia of gossip, there is not much to turn to for excitement. Architect Larry Cole, who loves his wife and two youngsters after eight years of faultless married life, turns to Margaret Gault, a beautiful blonde whose husband spends a lot of time in an aircraft factory...
MARGRET W. JURGENS Briarcliff Manor...
Died. Barclay Acheson, 70, longtime (1942-57) executive director and chairman (since last month) of the 27 Reader's Digest international editions (an estimated 9,000,000 circulation in 13 languages); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Briarcliff Manor...
Members of the Permanent Class Committee from the seven houses and Dudley were announced last night. The newly elected members are: Richard H. Weller of Adams House and Pelham Manor, N.Y. Weller has served on the Adams House Committee and is a member of the Catholic Club. Albert E. Yellin of Dudley and Milton, Mass. Yellin is a member of the Dudley House Committee, the HYRC and the Pre-Medical Society. He also is active in House athletics...