Word: maria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their overzealousness, some of the ministers seemed to have left their good common sense back home with their toothbrushes. Perhaps it was time, as the Roman Catholic liberal weekly Ave Maria suggested, for many of those religious leaders "to consider and determine what means of witness and protest are appropriate to clergymen and what means are not." Ave Maria questioned whether "the appropriate moral response of clergymen" is "always the same as the appropriate moral response of civil rights leaders...
...results of a classically misspent life. Last week he died as he had lived - gorging himself on fine food with a willowy blonde at his side. The end came in Rome's Ile de France restaurant on the ancient Aurelian Way near Vatican City. Accompanied by blonde Anna Maria Gatti, 28, Farouk dined at midnight on oysters, roast lamb, cake and fruit. At 1:30 in the morning, as he enjoyed a postprandial cigar, Farouk said he felt faint, clutched at his throat and fell forward on the table. An ambulance was summoned and Farouk was placed...
...Manhattan, news of Maria Callas' return - for two performances only -threw opera lovers into agonies of anticipation. As opening night drew near, scalpers were commanding up to $800 for tickets. Bleary-eyed fans lined up and slept on the sidewalks outside the Met for three days to snap up 448 standing-room tickets. The buildup, and one of the most glittering audiences in memory, demanded a triumphal evening. Callas, singing the role of Tosca, made it so, not with her voice, but with every last ounce of her siren skill...
...Callas admits to having had a real "vocal crisis" a few years ago. Now 41, she explains: "My biggest mistake was trying to intellectualize my voice. I tried to control an animal instinct instead of leaving it as it was. It set me back years. Professionally, the world of Maria Callas has become a lonely world of a woman looking for her voice...
...Spirit of the Time. The current Catholic mood of restlessness and discontent is in part inspired by challenge to authority plentifully visible in secular society. "Members of the church are also citizens of the world," writes Father Gallagher in the weekly Ave Maria. "They are unavoidably influenced by the spirit of their own time in history...