Word: apollo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best friend. Not until 1938, when the Nonesuch Press published over 8,000 intimate items of Dickens' correspondence, did the public learn what it had already guessed-that David Copperfield and The Pickwick Papers had been written by a very human being, not by a bearded Apollo in a frockcoat...
...three, the Iliad seemed to have the most immediate influence on TIME writing. Homer's "wine-dark sea" and "far-darting Apollo" were the parents of "jampacked bowl," "spade-bearded anthropologist" and many another space-saving phrase in TIME...
Among them : Capitol, Hit, Asch, Beacon, Blue Note, Comet, Commodore, De Luxe, Dix, Apollo, Savoy, Harmonia, Keynote, Exclusive, Feature, Musicraft...
...program for this evenings concert will include two duets from Baroque cantatatas by Buxtehude and Schutz, two choruses from "II Matrimonio Segreto" by Cimarosa, the "March of the Peers" from "Iolanthe" by Sir Arthur Sullivan and Sir William Schwenk Gilbert, "Glorious Apollo" by Webbe, and "Prayer of Thanksgiving," a Netherlands folk song...
...Bull arrived in the U.S. Pushed the New York Herald's critic: "This extraordinary being-this Ole Bull-will produce an excitement throughout he Republic unlike anything that ever took place in our day. He is young-unmarried [sic]-tall and elegantly formed -as beautiful as the Apollo. . . ." One reporter asked Ole what master he had studied under. Said Ole, with a serene stare: "God, the Infinite!" At a Washington concert a Congressman from Alabama rose in the midst of one of Ole's improvisations and shouted: "None of your highfalutin, but give us Hail Columbia, and bear...