Word: soul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last decade of his rule. It was a strange relationship, for the two had little in common. In looks and tem perament, Svetlana took after her mother, Nadezhda Allilueva, who was shot to death in 1932 shortly after an argument with Stalin. Like her mother, Svetlana was a free soul in a society fettered by her father, and has even adopted her mother's maiden name (she calls herself Svetlana Allilueva). As Stalin's daughter, she was, as she put it last week, "a kind of state property...
...quarter of a century under the command of the late Henri Soulé, Manhattan's Le Pavilion was the shrine of haute cuisine in the U.S. Hélas, since Restaurateur Soulé's death last year, the eatery has slipped a bit-at least to the palate of the New York Times's fastidious Gastronome Craig Claiborne, who dropped in a few times to see how the fare was faring under the new management of sometime Hotelman Claude Philippe. Aside from the prices ($173.90 for a relatively modest dinner for six) Claiborne sadly reported that...
Puntila is a wealthy Finnish landowner and a totally different man when drunk than when sober. When drunk, he is generous, kindly, amorous, democratic and the soul of good fellowship. When sober, he is mean, arrogant, priggish and smoldering with hatred for his fellow man. Puntila sober, as Brecht sees it, is a class-conditioned animal. Puntila drunk is Rousseau's child of instinctive natural goodness. Some richly comic scenes pivot on this personality split. Puntila sober wouldn't dream of fraternizing with his chauffeur Matti; Puntila drunk begs Matti to marry his daughter. Puntila drunk gets engaged...
...heart of the cantata is an amorous dialogue between Jesus and a Soul, portrayed in two soprano-bass duets and a bass recitative. On the whole, the long and intricate duets received the meticulous dovetailing of voices that they demand. Unfortunately, Hester often overpowered soprano Marsha Vleck; at times she was almost inaudible. In the recitative Hester provided the most moving moment of the evening, molding the angular phrases into a lyrical declaration of love...
There have been few major demonstrations against the Vietnam war since November, 1965, when 25,000 people converged at the Washington Monnument to hear Norman Thomas say "I'd rather see America save her soul than her face...