Word: bache
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...Guards even suggested that gold lettering be banned as crassly "capitalist." Henceforth, they ordered, all signs, inscriptions and customarily white traffic-cop batons must be rendered in red. All books not reflecting Mao-think should be burned; recordings of works by such "feudal-bourgeois-revisionist" composers as Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky must be banned. Also on the condemned list: taxicabs, toy wristwatches, sunglasses-and even happiness. A Mukden candy shop was ordered to drop the word happiness from its name, in keeping with the new austerity...
...like to play it safe by riding war horses. Typically, they select the music first, then find accomplished but lesser-known performers to play it. Their first venture, in 1962, was a concert of all six Brandenburg concertos, which one critic forewarned them was nothing but "a lot of Bach and potatoes." But it was all gravy for Hoffman and Schutz, who sold out the hall even after adding a second performance...
...comes, he cooks, he conquers. The girl, a nice dumb redhead (Julie Sommars) who talks as if she thinks Bach comes in bottles, tempts Ted to prove the one thing he is never really sure of: his virility. To ease his fear, he betrays his friend, but poor bumbling Bob refuses to accept betrayal. Galvanized by indignation, he demonstrates that true virility is not a matter of sexual prowess but of spiritual force...
Later they went into Lowell's chandeliered dining hall, the one that brings on images of sodden barons and trenchers stoked with legs of mutton. Someone was playing a Bach cello concerto...
Absent Brother. There will be nothing inconspicuous about the event starting at 11 a.m. Saturday, when the National Shrine's 56-bell carillon thunders into a window-rattling medley of works by Handel, Bach, Purcell and a new composition by Dutch-born Johan Franco. During the hour-long tintinnabulation, the principals and their guests will arrive under the unblinking scrutiny of TV. Inside-mercifully beyond reach of electronic peeping-the company and a pool of newsmen will see the father of the bride decked out in the formal regalia, morning coat and striped trousers, that he refused...