Word: marfa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What he saw was brusquely interrupted by the U.S. Army, which drafted Lanza. The Army sized him up, in its mysterious way, as good military police material, and packed him off, first to Florida and then to the dusty heat of an air base at Marfa, Texas. By the time Private Lanza waddled into the Special Services offices at the summons of Corporal Johnny Silver, he had been brooding for months over his broken singing career. "His shirt was open, he didn't have a hat, no laces on his shoes," recalls Silver, now a featured player in Broadway...
...Buenos Aires, Maríia Ester, Maríia Fernanda, Marfa Cristina, Carlos Alberto and Franco Jr., the Diligenti quintuplets, dressed up in their party best, joined playmates in giggling at a clown, puffed out 40 candles on a huge cake, then posed for a eighth-birthday picture...
...gaily clad peasant followers carried him along on a swelling surge of music flavored by the Russian folk songs which Nationalist Mussorgsky loved so dearly. Mussorgsky mined the rich vein of Russian liturgical themes to back up the somber, icon-bearing Old Believers. Led by the young zealot Marfa (Rise Stevens) and the fervent patriarch Dossife (Jerome Hines), they sang the opera's most exciting music...
When the final curtain fell, with Ivan Khovansky murdered and his son Prince Andrei, zealot Marfa and the entire sect of Old Believers singing a resounding funeral dirge around a pyre they had built for themselves, first-nighters were still shaky on plot details. But critics and audience were agreed that they had been introduced to three hours of blood-Warm music which, with familiarity, might become as well liked as Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov...