Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment, by her own confession: "Intensity." The cure she seeks: "Harmony. I want to find peace within myself and the world in which I live. I want to grow, not by design, but as the flower grows. Peace is art. Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes...
Postwar European opera has shown fascinating diversity of subject matter. Trying to put new drama onto their old stages, composers and librettists have turned to Kafka's tales of man in the grip of faceless forces (Gottfried von Einem's The Trial); to religion (Francis Poulenc's The Dialogues of the Carmelites); to intellectual battles of the past (Paul Hindemith's The Harmony of the World, an opera about the astronomer Kepler). Last week two more noteworthy operas held the stage in East Berlin and Naples. Both are by veterans: Slovakian-born Composer Eugen Suchon...
...father learned what had happened to his son, he flew into a rage. Next day County School Superintendent J. W. Threatte called Teacher Baskin in, ordered her to explain to Mr. Taylor exactly what had happened. At first Minnie Lee Baskin did not feel that the matter was particularly urgent, decided to postpone her visit until after the Christmas holidays. When school reopened, the superintendent called her in again. The whole school board, he said, was up in arms. She had better see Taylor fast...
Even to Berle himself, Berle had not really changed. Said he: "It's all a matter of acting-comedy, drama-but I'm still the same. I'm a performer." Then, still without definite plans for his TV future, he got ready to leave for Miami and a nightclub date as a comedian...
...thing wrong with many city churches. Dr. Ranck added, is that they are "ugly, dark and dirty ... In the city that never sleeps, lighting our churches is an important matter...