Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such a dreary situation affords condemning testimony in the case for public education. When education must bow to the whims of an ideologically confused and sub-college citizenry, it can never equal the standards of private education. There will always be the wishes, tastes, and fears of Opinion to consider, the Public that wants education to grow, but only within the mold of its own image...
Finally, the bases of political compromise among members of the Government must be re-established. Parlimentarians, ministers, and party leaders will have to yield their positions in the interests of positive policy-making. Principle must bow to practice, if any sort of effective action is to be accomplished...
...FitzLyon, nobody quite knows why "the facile, mediocre poet, the very inexperienced dramatist, should be the man who, above all others, succeeded in providing Mozart with the perfect framework for his music." One possible explanation is that a better poet than Da Ponte might have been less willing to bow to Mozart's stern dictum: "In an opera the poetry must be altogether the obedient daughter of the music." It is the usual fate of the librettist to be forgotten in favor of the composer, but Da Ponte deserves to be remembered-not only because of his skillful service...
...Shrimp Queen, Cotton Queen, Livestock and Pasture Queen, etc. -each accompanied by a masked "Duke" in wig, buckled shoes and knee breeches. Each queen curtsied low to the evening's guests of honor, Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife Pat. Nixon responded to each with a low bow, and to the strains of Pomp and Circumstance, escorted the Queen of the Ball to her throne...
Each dress is reviewed by the patron himself, sitting in a straight chair, clad in a long white butcher's smock. With a long, gold-tipped cane, Dior points and criticizes, orders a bow changed, a seam moved. Scattered through the collection are the five or six models which are called, because they may prove to be disasters, the "Trafalgars"-the dresses which are the most extreme and will make headlines or covers in the fashion magazines. Dior deliberately plans them to startle and shock, thinks of them as trial straws in the wind, to be developed...