Word: byronism
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...concluded the night with a performance of Tchaikovsky’s “Manfred Symphony Op. 58,” a work inspired by the poem by English Romantic writer Lord Byron. The lush sound of the orchestra and driving pulse of the four movements created a stronger sense of cohesion in the piece than in the Brahms...
...also the premise of 140,000 other movies about animals, kids or hobbits.) Bolt fits this familiar mold without looking moldy. Its visual style is unpretentiously attractive, with a limber graphic line, and there's little showboating in the design or the dialogue. Directors Chris Williams and Byron Howard are perfectly pleased to have labored in the service of that humblest of genres, the dog cartoon. (See TIME's top 10 dog movies...
...members agreed to give up control of their donations entirely or coordinated them directly with a campaign. There's no evidence of either; several people associated with the Cabinet made clear that its members make their donations without anyone's review. And yet as the National Review's Byron York has pointed out, Americans were horrified to learn during Watergate that Richard Nixon's friend Clement Stone had donated an outrageous $2 million in cash to the President's campaign. Cabinet members have spent at least five times that amount in various races in the past four years; the Soros...
...chewing and in the little crumbs of bread that dropped from his laboring jaws. Roxanna sensed he was tearing at the bread only so as to avoid tearing at himself.As she entered the study, Frederick was hunched forward, elbows on his knees, in an armchair. A volume of Byron dangled from one hand. He was staring off at nothing in particular.Timidly, Roxanna inquired if anything was the matter.“The Viscountess has vomited on the terrace,” Frederick said.“Alas!” cried Roxanna in virginal distress...
...shouldn't be necessary to say this, but it probably is: Humanitarian intervention was not invented in the 1970s by Jimmy Carter. In fact, it was all the rage in the 19th century. European powers intervened on behalf of the Greeks against the Ottoman Empire (the poet Lord Byron died while taking part in that particular adventure); they sent troops to Beirut to aid Syrian Christians against the Druze; they helped the Bulgarians against the Ottomans (again)--and on and on. In Freedom's Battle, Bass tells the strange, bloody tales of these now nearly forgotten campaigns with extraordinary verve...