Word: masters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...honors must go to Max Adrian, the "old, dangling" Sir Peter Teazle, and Cavada Humphrey, his young bride Lady Teazle. Adrian is a past master of timing and comic acting--a second "incomparable Max." And young as he is, he takes care to embody advanced age to the creakiest hip joint and most unyielding leg muscle, where the best make-up in the world is of no avail...
...that first satellite uprising-Russia's eastern European empire has been in a continual state of ferment, sometimes bubbling below the surface, sometimes , boiling over into open defiance. Convinced that Stalinist rigidity could not keep the lid on this pot forever, Stalin's successors tried to master the situation by easing up Moscow's pressure on the satellites. In one of history's most humiliating about-faces, Nikita Khrushchev weepingly repudiated Stalinism, paid court to Tito and gave gingerly acceptance to the doctrine of "many roads to socialism." In time, China's Mao Tse-tung...
...steamed into Los Angeles harbor, sideswiped a dock and stove in a lifeboat. Registered as a naval vessel, it dodged $18.25 a day in dock fees, though the only visible armament was a line-throwing gun. Caterers began loading on such supplies as champagne and cracked crab, and the master came aboard-but in bad temper from all the publicity. "Zsa Zsa Gabor is not giving a party on my boat," Ramfis snapped. "We will entertain." an aide explained, "but the general will be the host...
Springfield College Bonnie Prudden, physical fitness instructor. . . .Master of Humanics
...libretto tells of a simple shepherd who descends from the Pyrenees into the worldly "Tiefland" (the Lowland) to marry his master's doxy. When he mistakenly suspects that his bride's inclination is still to the manor bed, he at first considers stabbing her, later hits on the happier solution of strangling the landowner and loping back to the hills with his wife in his arms. This tale is set to an expansive, thickly melodic score which rarely bears any relation to the frenzies on stage but occasionally strikes some fine Straussian and Puccinian sparks. Recorded...