Word: shepherded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sort out all the contradictory reports, TIME immediately assigned six correspondents to the story. Bill Stewart and Jim Shepherd covered the Indian side from their base in New Delhi. Two former New Delhi correspondents, Dan Coggin and Lou Kraar, flew into Pakistan from their regular posts in Beirut and Singapore. Bill Mader and Friedel Ungeheuer provided back-up coverage from the State Department and the United Nations. In the combat zone, however, most local officials did their best to confine foreign correspondents to the rear areas and to harass them with red tape. The results were sometimes frustrating...
Currier House--On this end of Garden Street there is some talk of performing scenes of works in progress--primarily for the benefit of actors and playwrights. The drama society also hopes to do Sam Shepherd's Melodrama play sometime this fall, but is having trouble getting it off the ground...
Winthrop House--A medieval mystery play straight off the "English 100" reading list, the Second Shepherd's Play along with a reading from The Stuffed Doll will be staged in Winthrop House just before Christmas. The Winthrop House Drama Society is a strictly ad hoc group in this not strongly arts-oriented House...
...look at me from the depths of the earth, tiller of fields, weaver, reticent shepherd . . . jeweler with crushed fingers . . . say to me: here I was scourged because a gem was dull or because the earth failed to give up in time its tithe of corn or stone. Point out to me the rock on which you stumbled, the wood they used to crucify your body...
Librettist John Gay (of Beggar's Opera fame) drew upon an ancient Neapolitan myth: in the jealousy of the evil giant Polyphemus drives him to kill Acts, beloved shepherd of the goddess Galatea. Handel's occasionally inspired setting of the text reaches a high-point in the opening of Act Two. This chorus is beautiful and clever, true baroque artifice in a humorous double fugue...