Word: ascender
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...emphasized the crucial importance of the play's word-music: "It is not enough to see Richard III: you should be able to Whistly it." In his speech, Moriarty covers a wide pitch range, and repeatedly resorts actually to singing his lines, at one point using falsetto to ascend to soprano F. Near the end he takes one line, "Why love forswore me in my mother's womb" (borrowed from the third Henry VI play and sings it over and over as a musical refrain...
...acting ability of Michael O'Hare, but he does possess a warm and beautiful voice. His main function is to fight Richard to the death. So we have Moriarty, Dartmouth '63, pitted against O'Hare, Harvard '74. After too brief a bit of swordplay, Harvard wins and will ascend the throne as Henry...
...precise role of the I.U.D. in pelvic infections still puzzles doctors. One theory is that bacteria are able to ascend into the uterus via the threads that are attached to I.U.D.s to let women check on their proper position and make their removal easier. Another possibility: the I.U.D. somehow makes the uterus more hospitable, biochemically speaking, to invading bacteria. By contrast, birth control pills seem to have the opposite effect, suppressing infection...
...handful of Presidents whose greatness is all but universally conceded. Mount Rushmore epically displays the main clutch of them - Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt. A few more might be added -Jackson, Wilson, F.D.R. It is too soon to say which, if any, of the recent Presidents will ascend to the same folk pantheon. But the ghosts already there are quite likely astir in the elusive archetypal President...
...Wall Street law firm of Bass and Marshall is a curious sort of servitude. The associates are liveried in Brooks Brothers suits, their glass-box sweatshop has Oriental rugs, and the minimum wage is $27,000 a year. If they slave night and day for eight years, they may ascend to partnership and gain the privilege of exploiting other associates. Along the way, their brains turn into stuffed briefcases, and their souls are lost to mean ambition...