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...contest winners will gain niches in British folklore, but few will rate the special affection that went to diffident Alec Rose, as he quietly accepted the tributes of 200,000 horn-honking fans who overran Portsmouth, his home town, to greet him. Unlike Chichester, Rose had no commercial sponsor. From the moment, five years ago, when he hauled the dilapidated Lively Lady off a mudbank and started to fit her out for the rough 50-week sail, determination counted far more heavily than cash in his achievement. "It makes you feel rather humble," said Alec, "that everybody wants to congratulate...
...high mountains or arctic wastes, race over deserts, relentlessly push through tropical jungles. The latest of that intrepid breed-and Britain's new nautical hero -tottered ashore at Portsmouth last week from the tubby 36-ft. yawl in which he had circled the globe alone. Seagoing Greengrocer Alec Rose, 59, declared: "This bug gets into one's blood." Praising his "tenacity, skill and courage, "Queen Elizabeth knighted Rose and invited him and his wife Dorothy to lunch at Buckingham Palace...
...role lends itself, then, to vertiginous virtuosity and variety of interpretation--as exemplified in recent decades by the performances of John Gielgud, Maurice Evans, Michael Redgrave, Paul Scofield, Alec Guinness, John Neville, and David Warner...
...People's Concerts, he started on a career of recitals and solo stints with major orchestras. This required him to pad out the skimpy repertory for bass by transcribing the music of other instruments, from the archaic viola da gamba to the flute. More recently, composers such as Alec Wilder and Hans Werner Henze have begun to recognize his uniqueness by writing new pieces...
This moment of high theatricality, enhanced by the commanding performance of Alec McCowen, is followed by a dozen others as Rolfe seizes the reins of Vatican government with reforming zeal. With curious prescience, Rolfe's vision anticipates changes that took place in the Catholic Church half a century later. Pope Hadrian shakes the Curia to its foundation by renouncing all claim to temporal sovereignty, and defies tradition by walking through the streets to his coronation. He sells the Vatican treasures and gives the proceeds to the poor. Homelier touches include Hadrian giving an audience to a charwoman...