Word: marias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Happy birthday Dear Mister President-Happy birthday to you! This was a $3-to-$1,000 rally in anticipation of President Kennedy's 45th birthday this week. In the world of entertainment, everybody but everybody was there (except for a few old-hat Republicans like John Wayne). Maria Callas crescendoed, and Harry Belafonte sang Michael Row the Boat Ashore. Said Jack Benny to Jack Kennedy: "The amazing thing to me is how a man in a rocking chair can have such a young wife." Said Kennedy to Benny, who is 68, going on 39: "I'm very glad...
...life, brunette beauty Michele Lee owes all her best lines to nature. Though only 19, she seems to have acquired the false vivacity and hackneyed mannerisms of generations of musicomedy ingenues. Swooping about the stage like a benign witch out of a child's storybook, fortyish ex-Ballerina Maria Karnilova, who plays a mate-hungry widow, is remarkably agile and refreshingly comic...
Other members are Diane K. McGuire, a landscape architect; Maria Teresa M. Moevs, a classical archaeologist wife of Robert Moevs, assistant professor of Music; Tillie Olsen, a creative writer who won the 1961 O. Henry Award for the best American short story published in the previous year; and Marianna Pineda, a prize-winning sculptor...
...Churchill has got plenty of property investments in France, particularly along the coasts-it's a sure thing you're not going to see any armies landing there." In the end, the reader knows a lot about Maria Light. She works in a bakery shop, then in a pawnshop on Mechanic Avenue run by a 70-year-old sex fiend who tries to buy her body for $10 and failing, proposes marriage. She faithfully supports her invalid father-in-law. She longs for a man in bed with her but rejects one after another because they...
...that, Maria Light remains a faceless and not fully realized heroine in an otherwise excellent novel. She does not breathe the way the city breathes. Already a good novelist, Lester Goran will become an important one when he can draw his major figure as well as he sketches the small ones: "Archie came in the door with his habitual stoop although the door opening was well above his head." he writes of one quickly come-and-gone man in this book. "He had that shy manner that always indicated that what he was going to say was not worth hearing...