Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hollywood, where she signed substantial contracts for two movies and several appearances on the Danny Kaye and Andy Williams TV shows. Then she rushed back to France to embark on a tour in which she will-sing 46 concerts in 46 days, at $5,000 per performance. Under the stern scrutiny of France's leading impresario, Johnny Stark, she also keeps up a rigorous schedule of daily lessons in diction, breathing, modern dancing, physical culture and English conversation. So far, she has mastered "hello," "goodbye," and "I love...
...much action, adventure, heroism, devotion to duty, romance, singleness of purpose and accomplishment as he has. Born in the farming town of Sarrat, in Ilocos Norte province on Luzon's craggy northwest slopes. Marcos grew up under a code of spartan self-reliance. His father, Mariano Marcos, was a stern, humorless politician who refused comfort to any of his four children if they cried over injuries. "Don't start a fight," he advised brusquely, "until you know...
...anybody else who happens to be onstage. During a Cleveland Orchestra concert six months ago, the E string on Soloist Isaac Stern's violin suddenly snapped in the final movement of a Brahms concerto. Concertmaster Druian quickly gave Stern his Stradivarius, passed the disabled instrument to Assistant Concertmaster Daniel Majeske and continued playing on Majeske's violin. Majeske replaced the string and-switch, switch-Stern finished with a flourish on his fiddle, having missed only one measure of music. Says Druian, with the understatement typical of the supercool concertmaster: "It's all part...
Orthodox Jews, of course, are generally the stern and unbending champions of an almost literal approach to Halakah. "On it and on it alone," says Halakah Scholar Rabbi Louis Rabinowitz of Jerusalem, "we base our lives, our thoughts and our actions." "Without Halakah," Israeli Author Abraham Kariv told a Jerusalem symposium on Halakah last week, "we do not know how to believe, let alone how to express our faith in everyday life." The Orthodox regard any watering down of Halakah as "the Gallup-poll approach to Judaism"-making the law conform to practice and thus, for example, permitting the eating...
...tart, witty man in his speech, Krock rarely let such acerbity get into his columns. His criticism was almost always based on stern but high principles. He was also an inveterate writer of incisive letters to the editor. In one answer to a two-column attack by Harold Ickes, he skewered his opponent as a man "who has painted a word portrait of me in his own image. This tendency is familiar to psychiatrists...