Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conducting, and at 37 became director of the Vienna Opera. He swept out has-been singers and dusty traditions, and turned out the polished, provocative productions that made him one of Europe's major musical forces. He was also a fanatical-looking figure-5 ft. 6 in. tall, thin, gazing fiercely from behind rimless spectacles-yet, as his protégé Bruno Walter wrote, "his spirit never knew escape from the torturing question: 'For what?' " Demon-driven, he sought the answer in the music he wrote in spare moments, making each piece a gigantic shadow play...
...linguistic embroidery. Miss Garson also draws on Othello for bits of martial brouhaha and on Richard II for the pervasive vegetable metaphor that crops up in MacBird's first press conference ("This land will be a garden carefully pruned; / We'll lop off any branch that looks too tall / That seems to grow too lofty or too fast") and in the spectacle of a mad Lady MacBird sweetening the land with bouquets and aerosol deodorant. To assert that MacBird rapes the old Swan with no intelligence and no compassion is evidently to miss the point, for Miss Garson makes...
...prepared an extensive study advocating the division of New York City into five separate borough systems. Still others call for establishing educational parks, vast autonomous centers of education where whole districts would be educated under one roof. "We're all interested in decentralization," says Walter L. Hill, a tall sunburnt architect and lecturer on Education and Urban Planning at the Ed School. "It's the vogue...
...more bastions of male exclusivity, already pitiably small in number, have crumbled before the female onslaught. In Cambridge, Mass., tall, slender Deanne Siemer, 26, was elected president of the Harvard Law School's Legal Aid Bureau, the first woman ever to head one of Harvard's three legal honor societies. But why not? Deanne is a licensed pilot, a crack skier (she barely missed the 1960 Olympic team) and a pretty sharp lawyer, having won all ten of her cases so far for the Legal Aid Bureau, which represents indigents in civil cases involving less than...
Died. Lady Harlech, 45, wife of Lord Harlech, who as Sir David Ormsby Gore was British Ambassador to Washington (1961-65) and presently is deputy Conservative leader in the House of Lords; a tall, handsome woman whose poise and intimate friendship with the Kennedys made her one of Washington's top diplomatic hostesses; of injuries suffered when her car collided with a bus; near Harlech, Wales...