Word: bravoing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frederick Dalberg. Britten's triumph was the third act, in which Captain Vere (Tenor Peter Pears) walks to Billy's door, accompanied by long-measured chords, to deliver the death verdict. When the curtain fell for the act, there were seconds of silence, and then shouts of "Bravo, Benjy." Billy's fourth-act soliloquy, poetically sung by U.S. Baritone Theodor Uppman, and Captain Vere's epilogue, capped the climax...
...horsedom cantered in. Unmannerly broncos and bucking Brahman bulls were replaced by mannerly hunters and harness ponies, five-gaited mares that would no more buck than fly. The crowd was different too: vulgar cheers were taboo; from the Golden Oval of boxes came only polite applause, an occasional bravo that rang no rafters. With its black toppers, red tail coats and trumpets signaling the start of Manhattan's social season, last week the 63rd National Horse Show was in full swing...
...ultimate prizewinners, including Second Prizewinner Mikhail Vayman, 24, Third Prizewinner Elisabeth Cserfalvi, 25, and Fourth Prizewinner Olaf. But the biggest crowd came out on the last afternoon for Leonid Kogan. By the time he had glided masterfully through the perilous Paganini Concerto in D Major, the Bruxellois were yelling bravo. Kogan grinned, bowed quickly and walked off into a flood of backstage congratulations. The judges' decision an hour later confirmed what everyone already knew: Kogan had won hands down...
...Bravo for your Feb. 19 slap at the back-scratching brass of the armed forces whose foremost ambitions seem to center on the accumulation of a colorful array of "fruit salad" for their dress uniforms...
...BRAVO FOR YOUR CONSCIENTIOUS STORY. DULLES IS THE MAN TO SUCCEED ACHESON...