Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Annie's almost too sweet. You've got to stand for something as a captain--you can't be silent," she says. "I don't worry about Annie on the field because she's proven herself over and over again. I just think that it's time for her to extend herself and share her talents with the less experienced players," she adds...
...still closed by a labor dispute, all was dark, silent and desolate. But next door at Manhattan's Lincoln Center huge banners fluttered from the balcony of the New York State Theater: NEW YORK CITY OPERA-WHERE OPERA COMES ALIVE. And so it did last week, as the City company presented new works by U.S. composers. In an evening titled "An American Trilogy," the company premiered three one-act works by two well-known New Yorkers, Stanley Silverman and Thomas Pasatieri, and a relatively unknown Middle Westerner, Jan Bach. The results were mixed, but overall the night...
...Poulenc's La Voix Humaine. The setting is a grim Depression flat. Soprano Marilyn Zschau is preparing breakfast for her husband before leaving for her own job as a waitress. While she flops around the room in her slip, she carries on a one-way conversation with the silent and unseen spouse as he gets up and goes into the bathroom to shave...
...Democratic victory? "I was dubious at first," said one well-dressed matron after the final ovation faded into a post-meal hum. "Everyone had doubts coming into this one, but in person he (Carter) is truly grand. He is an honest man," she added. Her husband nodded in silent agreement as he guided the old woman toward the door...
Waugh remarried in 1937. To his brother Alec he coolly described his bride-to-be as "thin and silent, long nose, no literary ambitions, temperate but not very industrious." His letters to her, though, radiate warmth; he called her "my poppet" and "Whiskers" and confessed that their long separations during his service in World War II sometimes left him "near to tears." Similarly, he often abused his growing brood of six children to his friends. To Nancy Mitford: "All my children are here for the holidays-merry, affectionate, madly boring-except Harriet who has such an aversion to me that...