Word: valhalla
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. James G. Grant, 53, an associate editor at TIME for five years; of a heart attack; in Valhalla, N. Y. A veteran of Stars and Stripes in Berlin, Army Times in London and the Newburgh (N.Y.) News, Grant joined TIME in 1969, where he specialized in business writing and helped to launch the magazine's Energy section...
STRAIGHTFORWARD enactments of Wagner's text complement the implicit parody of the hand-puppets and dummies. For the entry into Valhalla over the rainbow bridge in Rheingold, the bridge is projected through a transparency onto the rear wall of the stage; Brunnhilde's enchantment at the end of Walkure occurs atop a ladder, wrapped in a crimson cape and defended by a cordon of flashing lights; for the funeral march in Gotterdammerung, Siegfried's body is set in a huge wooden cart that Brunnhilde, haloed by a spotlight, pulls along. Sellars manages these scenes better than many directors with...
...Princeton's record still stands. The Tigers have been national champs for three years in a row now, and that's an abnormally long drought for the Crimson. It wasn't so long ago that Hemenway was the Valhalla of squash, but it has recently become its Mudville. So why is it that for the third year in a row the Mighty Crimson has struck...
...Crimson linksters returned from the golfing Valhalla of the Florida panhandle with a slew of sub-80 rounds and an encouraging 5-3 record...
Even as the stock market edged downward this year, one stock shot up sensationally. Between January and mid-September, the shares of a little-known company called Savin Business Machines Corp., of Valhalla, N.Y., increased 158% in value on the New York Stock Exchange, reaching a high of $50. Suddenly Savin's stock collapsed; by the middle of last week its price had been cut nearly in half, to $27.25, and a modest rally brought it back only to $28 Friday. The drop was a classic case of how jittery stock traders can be panicked...