Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manchester, prescribed his podium-tested cold cure: "Put on two pullovers. Stand on a chair. Turn the wireless onto a symphony concert and conduct like mad with a poker or pencil for an hour or so. The cold, I guarantee, will have vanished by the last movement." A comparative youngster in a profession noted for longevity, Sir John, 61, who is inclined to share his wisdom with everybody, freely explained the secret of his nostrum: "Do you know why conductors live so long? Because we perspire so much...
...black, redlined cloak, black stockings and stiletto heels, Graziella Sciutti is now a familiar figure in Milan and an accepted operatic star all over Europe, but her career developed slowly. As a youngster in Turin, she studied singing, was later told that her voice was too frail for opera, and decided to become a concert singer. After her concert debut in 1950, she won a few operatic parts (Lucy in The Telephone, Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro), did not really get launched until Herbert von Karajan cast her in the role of Frasquita in a 1955 production of Carmen...
...support the work of the entire Western Province and its 250 brothers, who teach in eleven schools, many of them completely or partially tuition-free. The brothers like to stress their education of youth instead of wine making, but cannot resist comparisons. Says Brother John: "Wine is like a youngster. If he comes from a good mother and father, if he gets a good home and good education, he grows up to be a good individual. A good wine is the same...
...SEPARATE PEACE, by John Knowles. In this quietly brilliant exploration of adolescence, a youngster makes the discovery that hatred and admiration are mixed in his feelings for his best friend, and that hatred can be tragically stronger...
...school heard from him again this fall, when he sent a letter that began: "In October of the year of our Lord 1958, I began a journey-a long and difficult journey-a journey to glory or death." The letter went on to paint a picture of a youngster so hungry for a U.S. education that he had walked 2,500 miles across Africa to find one. This week Kayira and Skagit will see each other at last...