Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sets and luxurious costumes. Result was 33 curtain calls. As La Stupenda plucked sprays from Cooktown orchids for the supporting cast and kissed her husband, enthusiastic galleryites stamped so loudly that a nervous opera buff sitting below wondered: "How long can the theater stand the strain of a Sutherland tour...
...other side makes plain is that all it wants is total victory." Doubtful of the chances of peace until the Viet Cong have suffered some military reverses, Sulzberger prophesied the collapse of British Prime Minister Harold Wilson's recent mission to Viet Nam: "One purpose the Wilson peace tour can achieve when it fails-as it almost certainly will-is to make more Americans and America's friends finally realize that what the Viet Cong and Hanoi want is peace at no price, and what Peking wants is no peace whatsoever...
...library. At 20, Michael began to attend scientific lectures, and at 21 he suffered a fateful stroke of luck. He caught the eye of Sir Humphrey Davy, the greatest chemist in England, who hired him as an assistant and whisked him off to the Continent on a Grand Tour that lasted 18 months and introduced the blacksmith's boy to many of the greatest intellects of the era. Back in England, Davy established Faraday as superintendent of apparatus in the laboratory of the Royal Institution...
...fell in love with the ruddy country-or what he saw of it between tryouts of the Lerner-Loewe musical based on his tetralogy, The Once and Future King. He vowed to return, and his opportunity came in late 1963, when he was booked for a three-month lecture tour that was to take him all over...
White admitted that on such a tour he was bound to see "the best of America, the young, the enthusiastic, the idealistic, the hopeful to learn." He perceived nonetheless that Americans can be crass, narrow-minded and dismayingly conformist. Confined to a New Orleans hospital throughout the ordeal of President Kennedy's assassination and burial, he sensed that the whole nation shared something akin to "a schoolboy's innocent guilt." But White felt that the U.S. today is "something like a modern Elizabethan England" and concluded that "people who live in Renaissances are apt to live with violence...