Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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, 49, and Italian Composer Renzo Rossellini, 50 (sometime music critic and brother of Film Director...
...require a much larger portion of the liberal studies. We must work toward the view that an educational leader is not merely an organization man but should be primarily an intellectual, a scholar, and a man of ideas. This will represent a sharp reversal of a trend of the past 30 years, but a reversal we must make if educational leadership at the level of ideas is again to be returned to the hands of the professional group...
...only treasure that lies beneath the timeless sands of the Middle East. Temples, churches, palaces and whole cities wait for the digging; the finds of the past decade-at Harran and Arzawa in Turkey and Dura Europos in Syria-indicate how much more is to come. This week the government of Israel was opening to tourists the latest major discovery: the remains of one of the earliest Christian churches in the world...
...bounced along, his head bobbing, his spikes scratching splinters in his peculiar, pecking stride. Then, rounding into the final quarter, he threw his head up in surprise. Rozsy had sprinted past him, was kicking downhill into the short straightaway. Puzzled, Ron turned it on. It seemed a little early for the final sprint, but if that was the way it had to be-well, Ron knew what to do. He lengthened his own stride, won by twelve lengthening yards...
...back, Felicia plunges into plantation work and gradually she gives up all pretense at social life. When her son is killed by the arrow of a savage tribesman, nothing is left for Felicia but the daily round, the deepening identification with the island's character, a contemplation of past and present, tinged with a lonely woman's resentment...