Word: raymonde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sometimes seems that Americans live by surveys. From the degree of relief a customer should find in one pill as against another to the exact percentage of people who prefer one political candidate to his rival, a fusillade of figures is daily aimed at the U.S. Last week Raymond C. Hagel, president and chairman of the Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., told the Washington Society of Investment Analysts just how sound some of those figures can be. In a survey conducted last year, hundreds of New Yorkers were shown a list of magazines and asked to name those they read regularly...
...ultimate value is the mingling of the professional artist, with his intense personal stake in his art, and the university, so often aridly concerned with detached theory. "It is so exciting," says University of Southern California Music Department Chairman Raymond Kendall, "to walk into a studio in the afternoon and find two 18-year-olds playing in a string quartet with Gregor Piatigorsky and Jascha Heifetz." At Southern Illinois University, where former Metropolitan Opera Soprano Marjorie Lawrence, confined to a wheelchair by polio since 1941, conducts an opera workshop, Professor Howard R. Long declares: "When she puts on an opera...
...agonizings have cost her her sanity and her hair (which has fallen out in clumps). The intricacies of this identity crisis are represented by her four selves: Patrice Lumumba, Jesus, Queen Victoria Regina, and the Duchess of Hapsburg, Except for one cruel scene between Sarah and her lover Raymond--a Jewish poet "who is very interested in Negroes"--the play is composed entirely of motion and monologue. Miss Teer's performance is magnetic, and this form permits her to hold the audience completely at times; but it leaves other moments wearily empty...
...twelve years as mayor of St. Louis, Raymond Roche Tucker floated $129.5 million in public-improvement bonds, bulldozed away acres of slums, attacked the traffic problem. Today, monuments to his administration stand everywhere: a nearly completed arch, designed by the late Eero Saarinen, symbolizing the city's history as a gateway to the West; an $89 million sports stadium rising from what was once Skid Row; 602 city blocks undergoing a facelift...
...beer bottle he was carrying. According to the cops, the bottle carrier answered by yelling, "Come and get it, coppers!" In the dust-up that followed, he slashed Patrolman Thomas De Sutter's face. De Sutler, who was also accidentally shot in the foot by his partner, Patrolman Raymond Howard, had to spend 23 days in the hospital...