Word: swans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WILD SWAN, by Monica Stirling. A tender and touching biography of Master Storyteller Hans Christian Andersen, who lived to be 70 and was still seeing life as a fairy story more magical than any he wrote...
...WILD SWAN, by Monica Stirling. A tender and touching biography of Master Storyteller Hans Christian Andersen, who lived to be 70, and was still seeing life as a fairy story more magical than any he wrote...
...WILD SWAN by Monica Stirling. 383 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
...Hereditary Position?" It may have been the Byrd dynasty's swan song. As Republican Moderate A. Linwood Holton showed by racking up 38% of the vote in this month's gubernatorial election, Virginia is no longer an unchallenged Democratic fiefdom. "Little Harry," in some ways more rigidly conservative than his father, helped master mind the state's "massive resistance" campaign to school desegregation in 1959, is hardly likely to win the increas ingly influential votes of Virginia's Ne groes. If an attractive moderate opposes him in the Senate primary next July, Little Harry, a state...
...opera-so he created Orfeo and Euridice, with their set, face-front arias. Bellini (1801-35) and Donizetti (1797-1848) thought Gluck's characters were insufficiently real-so they created the stylized Norma and Lucia. Wagner (1813-83) avowed the same sentiment-and created Lohengrin and his swan. Puccini (1858-1924) proclaimed a brand of truthfulness he called verismo -and created Turandot, the princess of a China that could never have existed anywhere...