Word: senting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When he arrived, Frederick immediately dismissed his minions, exclaiming: "Old Bach is here!" The two then spent an evening together, and Bach delighted Frederick by improvising a fugue on one of Frederick's themes. After returning home, Bach wrote an extensive chamber cycle on the same theme and sent it to Frederick with the title Musical Offering. Soon after this, Bach's overworked eyes as well as his rugged constitution began to fail. Two operations on his eyes only weakened him further. Finally, at 65, just before dying, he lay in bed, totally blind, and dictated his last...
Insulting Attitude. Father Mazzi's troubles began last September, when a group of left-wing Catholic laymen in nearby Parma briefly occupied the city's cathedral to protest what they called "episcopal authoritarianism." Mazzi, along with three other priests and 150 Florentine laymen, sent the rebels a letter of support. Florence's archbishop, Ermenegildo Cardinal Florit, then wrote Mazzi, reproving him for "an insulting attitude to the authority of the church." Florit ordered the priest to retract his letter or resign. Mazzi refused, and 108 priests of the city petitioned the cardinal to re-examine his condemnation...
...specifications of various celebrities. Television's Smothers Brothers' tree is a roost for 50 peace doves. Socialite-Artist Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper's tree is a collage of gingham swatches and lacy Christmas cards. Baroness Maria von Trapp directed her tree be festooned with homemade cookies-even sent the recipes along. But no one could hold a Christmas candle to Songstress Pearl Bailey who, when asked what she wanted on her tree, replied "Just gobs and gobs of pearls, honey." And gobs is what she got: $25,000 worth of cultured pearls-3,500 in all-dress...
...lost none of his flair. After a particularly florid and emotional summation at one mur der trial, Morgan spun around before the astonished jurors and fell in a dead faint. He tried some two dozen criminal cases before he was uncovered again. Convicted of fraud, he was sent to Leavenworth prison in Kansas...
Enter Bobby. YIP seemed doomed. New York cops broke up the yippie invasion of Grand Central Station; kids who valued their skulls began to stay away in droves. Bobby Kennedy's entry into the 1968 presidential race, followed by Lyndon Johnson's dropout, sent yippie stock tumbling. As Abbie notes: "Come on, Bobby said, join the mystery battle against the television machine. Participation mystique. Theater-in-the-streets. He played it to the hilt. And what was worse, Bobby had the money and power to build the stage. We had to steal ours. It was no contest." Worse...