Word: behold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Behold the mighty Englishman! He rules the Indian small, Because being a meat eater He is five cubits* tall...
...back in 1936, an eccentric old millionaire popped up on the palm-fringed campus of Rollins College at Winter Park, Fla. and began looking for a place to build an art museum. Even in those days, Spanish-styled Rollins College was something to behold. Under the unconventional presidency of Hamilton Holt, it was already running heavily to tennis and horseback riding, had abolished professorial lectures and final examinations, put little stress on student grades, went in for such campus curiosities as a tree-lined "Walk of Fame," paved with stones from the homes and haunts of the world...
...personal criticism, but it is a warm, lyric approach that does full justice to the cyclical construction and almost earthy quality of the music. For, despite name, the Requiem is not sorrowful or morbid, but confident and reassuring. Particularly fine were the male voices in the great fortissimo, "Behold, all flesh . . . ," and Radcliffe attained equal stature in the flowing fourth section and the final fugue. The impassioned soprano solos of Miss Frances Yeend lent the note of high personal achievement needed to round out a very satisfying concert...
Mark: And entering into the sepulcher they saw a young man . . . and he saith unto them, "Be not affrighted: ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid...
...Fatal Weakness (produced by the Theatre Guild) finds the George Kelly who has so often gone after women with a whip (Craig's Wife, Behold the Bridegroom) merely thwacking them with a hairbrush-and almost patting the heroine on the head. The Fatal Weakness is sharp-eyed but light-reined comedy that would be straight matinee stuff were not much of it matinee stuff in reverse. Unsentimental Playwright Kelly has a way of suddenly going against traffic-of, for example, letting a curtain flutter down just where a standard-brander would start licking his chops. Again, after ringing...