Word: bend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Worse for Cambridge, if Richard Nixon wins the election, his faithful barker, Governor Volpe, will probably have, if not a cabinet post, at least enough influence to bend the ear of Bridwell's successor on the matter of the Belt. Though Volpe has remained mum on the Belt for almost two years, it's likely that Cambridge's continuing fight has not further endeared the City to the former highway contractor. The study could be scratched before it began...
...pianist displays a Horowitz-like technique, a poet's heart and vast reserves of power; he throws up wave upon wave of volume without ever losing the shimmering roundness of his tone. In the Chopin, he adheres to the composer's theory that the melodic line should bend gracefully but never at the cost of a steady rhythmic pulse. Weissenberg's long sabbatical has transformed him into a superb Romantic stylist...
Corsaro also concluded early on that he was not going to be influenced by Gounod's score, either. "It's sweet, it has charm and grace, and it's romantic -but it can bend any number of ways," he explains. Fortunately, Soprano Beverly Sills (Marguerite), Tenor Michele Molese (Faust), Bass Norman Treigle (Mephistopheles) and Conductor Rudel were on hand to see that it did not bend too much. Some traditionalists felt that it was going too far to deprive Marguerite of her usual departure for heaven in full view of the audience. But Corsaro decided that angels...
...went on around the bend...
...Joseph Schneiders, pastor of the First Unitarian Church of South Bend, Ind., is not exactly the most popular figure in his politically conservative town. He has held antiwar meetings in the church, counseled youths on how to avoid the draft, been arrested with Negroes at a sit-in. Last July he invited Milwaukee's Father William Groppi and a contingent of his followers down to join a series of Black Power demonstrations in South Bend. Less than a month later, an arsonist hurled a Molotov cocktail at Schneiders' church, and half of it was destroyed by fire...