Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Somehow the emotion spread to people elsewhere who care about music. Local newspapers were disappointed that Queen Elizabeth, Greta Garbo and Aly Khan were not on hand, but they took comfort from the presence of Secretary of State Dulles, Composer Dmitry Shostakovich, Conductor Bruno Walter, .Industrialists Henry Ford II and Harvey S. Firestone Jr. Above all. the city which can name no less than 28 houses in which Beethoven lived, gloried in the opening-night work: Fidelio, Beethoven's only opera, which had had its premiere exactly 150 years before-in occupied Vienna (at that time the occupying armies...
Something from all of the lands and people he has known appears in his poetry--"not obviously, but in many ways"--Muir explains. His poetic understanding and traditional simplicity were recognized three years ago when Queen Elizabeth named him Commander of the British Empire. Muir's works have not yet achieved wide fame in this country, however. Perhaps tomorrow's lecture will further American understanding and appreciation of this lonely traveler...
...trained to her station, that monarchy's duty to please the majority often consists in not offending the influential minority, especially when the minority stands on time-honored tradition. She could only hope that if she married outside the Established Church, of which her sister the Queen is head, even the church itself might in time prove forgiving. In a pamphlet published last December, the Primate of that Church, her family's close friend and spiritual guide, the Archbishop of Canterbury, had written: "I do not find myself able to forbid good people who come...
...Following Margaret come 4) the Duke of Gloucester, 5) Prince William of Gloucester, 6) Prince Richard of Gloucester, 7) the Duke of Kent, 8) Prince Michael of Kent, 9) Princess Alexandra of Kent, 10) the Princess Royal, Margaret's aunt and the daughter of King George V and Queen Mary. ** She is now married to John de Lazlo, the co-respondent in the suit. Her two sons, though awarded to Peter by the court, live with her. The elder boy is at Eton. ***Anthony Eden divorced his first wife, Beatrice Beckett, in June 1950, was married to Winston Churchill...
...Manhattan for the first of four concerts, during a month's North American tour, the Philharmonia looked much like any other orchestra. When Salzburg-born Conductor Herbert von Karajan took it through the Star-Spangled Banner and God Save the Queen, it sounded much like any other, too. But in a Mozart Divertimento, it became something special...