Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Malta was to have been a peaceful sojourn for the prince after the excitement of his 21st birthday celebration. A little water skiing, relaxed ceremonies marking the bicentenary of the island's university, a quiet stroll through the National Museum, where cameras caught him, rapt, reaching out to touch...
"I've got a fantastic story," the source said. "There's a guy down in Benning who is being held on a charge of murdering 70 to 75 Vietnamese civilians." Hersh put aside his book and started tracking down information that led to an interview with Calley on...
Owens gets the ball deep in the backfield, and the idea, he says, "is to get to the line quick. You go pitter-patter-in' up there and they'll be waiting for you with a smile. Then pow! And the lights go out." They rarely go out...
"Only a cut above the amateur" was British Critic Ernest Newman's scornful evaluation of Czech Composer Leoš Janáček in a 1924 review of the opera Jenufa. "Atrocious drama and wretched theater," complained a New York Times critic after a 1931 performance of From the...
Second Youth. Janáček was born in 1854 in Moravia, now part of Czechoslovakia. He studied music in the town of Brno, married there (unhappily), suffered through the early death of his two children, and enjoyed no major success as a composer until he was 60. About that...