Word: marias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More than 1,000 soldiers and policemen were deemed necessary to guarantee Rockefeller and his team of advisers tranquillity for their talks with President José Maria Velasco Ibarra and a dozen groups of assorted political and business leaders. They told the visiting norteamericanos what they, with local variations, have heard and are likely to hear everywhere. The Latins want more U.S. aid without strings, assured markets and better prices for their exports to the U.S. They want more control over their own resources and over the policies and profits of large U.S. companies that operate in Latin America. Ecuador...
...Gluck, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert. Toward the end of the 19th century, Composer-Conductor Gustav Mahler ushered in another Golden Age of Viennese opera by stressing dramatic stagecraft as well as musical excellence in his productions. The years that followed were a time of great names (Enrico Caruso, Maria Jeritza, Lotte Lehmann, Bruno Walter and Arturo Toscanini) and spectacular gestures. Many Viennese still remember the flamboyant tenor Jan Kiepura, who after performances serenaded his fans from the roof of a taxicab outside the stage door...
...life as in his art, Constable was a late bloomer. At the age of 33, he fell in love with Maria Ricknell, the 21-year-old granddaughter of a crusty, wealthy Stour Valley rector, who threatened to cut her out of his will if she married the impecunious painter. Prudently, Constable and Maria waited seven years. Finally, in 1816 his father died, leaving him with enough of an inheritance at 40 to marry and support a wife and children (they had seven). Virtually all Constable's greatest paintings were done after his marriage...
...Maria died of pulmonary tuberculosis in 1829, and her death utterly shattered Constable. "The face of the world is totally changed for me," he told a friend. He wore mourning for the nine remaining years of his life. To assuage his sorrow, he turned to a sketch that he had made of the ruins of Hadleigh castle, which stood near the mouth of the Thames. In the completed painting, while the ruined castle becomes a monument to Constable's grief, the scudding clouds, the glistening rocks and the sparkling leaves display a fervent commitment to self-renewing life...
...Married. Maria Atalanti Livanos, 27, U.S.-born daughter of the late millionaire Greek shipowner George M. Livanos; and Stephane A. Cattaui, 32, French-Egyptian investment banker, vice president and Eurooean representative of Clark, Dodge & Co. Inc.; he for the second time; in a Greek Orthodox ceremony; in Manhattan...