Word: marianism
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...Although no Negro had ever sung a solo role there at the time. The first: Marian Anderson, who in 1955 long past her vocal prime-appeared in the minor part of the fortune teller Ulrica in Verdi's A Masked Ball. Following Anderson, three Negroes have had lead roles at the Met: Baritone Robert McFerrin, Sopranos Mattiwilda Dobbs and Gloria Davy...
...which Kennedy had been reading. It was 12:13 o'clock-and even though he had not yet taken his oath of office, Kennedy, under the U.S. Constitution, had been President of the U.S. since the stroke of noon. The Marine Band struck up America the Beautiful. Contralto Marian Anderson sang The Star-Spangled Banner. Then, as Boston's Richard Cardinal Cushing delivered his long invocation, smoke began wafting from the lectern. On and on the cardinal prayed-upward and upward poured the smoke. When Cardinal Cushing finished, Dick Nixon and several other volunteer firemen rushed...
Christmas Startime (CBS, 5-6 p.m.). A rebroadcast of last year's program of Christmas music with Marian Anderson and the New York Philharmonic. Color...
...Easton, Pa., frequently flies in a planeload of friends for Lafayette College games. He has an 1812 mansion in Morristown, NJ., which he has converted into an office, commutes to Manhattan twice a week. He lives on a 64-acre estate in nearby Harding Township with his wife Marian, close to their four children...
...Yorkers, Minnie at 78 personifies Lewisohn Stadium. She organized the concerts in the summer of 1918, hit on the crowd-catching mixture of jazz, pop music, "Viennese Nights" and serious classical endeavor. And it was Min nie who gave some of the best known names in music-Marian Anderson, Larry Adler, Eugene Ormandy-their first major concert audiences...