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Efforts to build in Harvard Square, however, have met with vocal community opposition, according to Gladys Gifford, one of the founders of the Harvard Square Defense Fund...
...most vocal critic has been New York Daily New columnist Jimmy Breslin, who charges that had the teenagers been white and Goetz Black, rather than the other way around, the public would have taken a completely different view of the situation. But Goetz's predilections aside, the likelihood of two dozen randomly chosen Manhattan residents all being racists is slim at best--more likely, those 23 grand jurors are subway riders...
When the dust settled 40 minutes later, the sophomore guard had a career-high 21 points, the small but vocal Harvard contingent had sore throats, and the visitors had the victory...
Birgit Nilsson knew at 63 that her time had come; in 1982 the noblest of modern Brunnhildes put away her breastplate and shield, assured of a permanent place in every Wagnerian's vocal Valhalla. Beverly Sills, the ebullient American queen of bel canto, tossed off her last Donizettian roulade in 1980. Last week another of that generation's dominant divas appeared on an opera stage for the last time: Leontyne Price ended a glittering 32-year career with a vocally stunning performance of Verdi's Aida at New York City's Metropolitan Opera that proved she can still capture...
...entrance application to a predominantly black college in Wilberforce, Ohio, "I'm worried about the future because I want so much to be a success." In 1949 she won a scholarship to Manhattan's Juilliard School, where her teacher, Florence Page Kimball, economically taught her to "sing on your vocal interest, not on the principal." In 1952 she was discovered by Composer Virgil Thomson, who cast her in his opera Four Saints in Three Acts. That led to her first popular triumph, as Bess in a revival of Porgy and Bess. A great career was launched...