Word: oriana
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first glance, the program seemed interesting, contrasting English Renaissance music in the first half with motets by Bruckner and Brahms in the second. By the end of the concert, however, the contrast seemed to have little point. The six florid Elizabethan motets from "The Triumphs of Oriana" were all similar and Brahms and Bruckner, at least as interpreted here, seemed uniformly dreary...
...Collegium sang two more motets from "Oriana," including one by Thomas Thomkins, another genius of the period. "The Fauns and Satyrs are Tripping" is not, however, one of his more profound works...
Henry Kissinger was terribly embarrassed when Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci quoted him describing himself as a character out of Zane Grey. He did not deny that he had said those words-"Why I agreed to it [the interview], I'll never know," he confessed later-but it was a little hard to imagine just how the precise, bespectacled professor of history at Harvard could see himself as a lean, flinty-eyed macho on horseback. Still, in a way Kissinger's self-portrait was not so preposterous as it sounded. Proud, private and consummately confident of his ability, Kissinger...
...Being a woman has never hindered me. It has never caused me any unease, never given me an inferiority complex. Men have always been good to me." Golda Meir, the 74-year-old Premier of Israel, talking to Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaei for Ms., decided to set a few things straight. Ben-Gurion's calling her "the only man in my Cabinet" was "just a legend." Had she ever killed anyone in Israel's years of war? "No . . . I learned to shoot, of course, but I've never had to kill anyone. I'm not saying...
...Women are more stubborn than men. That's why they make good reporters." Oriana Fallaci, the tiny (5 ft. 1 in.) Italian reporter who takes on the big guys for L'Europeo magazine, was off for a tenth visit to Viet Nam to reinterview President Thieu and cover the American withdrawal. The way she explains her exclusive interviews with world leaders, however, gender has less to do with it than size. "I got Thieu to talk because we are both very short. Henry Kissinger didn't talk as much because he's slightly taller than...