Word: tour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stayed for 20 years, drawing raves with a clear, effortlessly powerful voice that made her a standout in an era of great Met sopranos, including Kirsten Flagstad and Lotte Lehmann. She also brought a lively offstage presence to U.S. opera-once, during a tour with Met Basso Ezio Pinza, she collected not only bouquets but also a $250,000 suit from Pinza's wife charging alienation of affections. "It's too full, my life," Rethberg said. "I just give and give...
Bryan, a tall Yale graduate who looks much younger than his 40 years, was in town last week on a promotional tour. He explained that he began receiving letters as soon as the first part of a serialization of Friendly Fire appeared in The New Yorker. Readers all over the country wrote that they had been moved to tears by Bryan's description of Michael clearing land with a tractor on the Mullen farm in Iowa the day before he left for Vietnam, the fumbling goodbyes in the local airport the next day, and the shock and horror six months...
Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, spoke last summer to a group of 120 Japanese students whose tour was apparently organized by a Unification Church branch...
...which the Communist daily L 'Humanité heralded as "historique!" As Marchais's guest, the Italian leader once more proved that he is a campaigner to be reckoned with: his 47-minute speech in barely accented French to a rally of 70,000 Gallic comrades was a tour de force. Marchais for an hour had delivered a predictable tirade damning such enemies of the right as French President Giscard d'Estaing and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Berlinguer's address was a well-constructed appeal for a "different socialism...
...appropriate, then, that as soon as TIME'S second Bicentennial issue, The New Nation, was completed, a special edition be given to the country's second highest ranking reader, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller. As it turned out, the Vice President had just finished serving as a bicentenary tour guide, having escorted French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing through the Revolutionary War battle site at Yorktown. Mr. Rockefeller did not say whether President Giscard seemed unusually well informed about that era, but Paris Correspondent Gregory Wierzynski reports that Giscard packed a copy of The New Nation...