Word: marys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates (now part of Iraq), founded one of the world's first major civilizations. But only in this century have scholars come to know the Sumerians with any thoroughness, chipping away at the sites of such ancient city-states as Ur, Lagash and Mari. Last week a U.S. expedition, sponsored by the American Schools of Oriental Research and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, was at work at the site of the holy city of Nippur, the seat of Enlil, god of the elements. There, only 100 miles south of Baghdad...
Essentially, the production was the same as that given at New York's City Center. The staging and settings were exemplary. Julius Rudel conducted with complete authority; and the singers--headed by Gail Manners, Walter Cassel, Dolores Mari, and Robert Williams--were uniformly excellent down to the smallest part. In all, a stunning production of an important addition to the American operatic repertory...
Gamblers & Colonizers. In half a dozen books (Old Jules, Slogum House} about settlers, cowmen and sheepherders of the 1870s, Nebraska's Mari Sandoz, 61, has tilled her own neat field well enough to become one of the better sod sisters. Her latest novel, despite its gamblin' title, is no card party. Her hero, John Jackson Cozad. was indeed a wily gentleman jackleg, but a green baize tabletop never confined his instinct for conquest. In 1872, when every faro den east of the Mississippi had barred its doors to his talent for bank breaking, Cozad made a down...