Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Campaigning for Governor in the Ozarks, Winthrop Rockefeller may look upon Elder Brother Nelson's battle in New York as a polite drawing-room exercise. Winthrop, 54, an Arkansas cattle rancher, is squared off against don't-or-die Segregationist Jim Johnson, a Wallace Democrat who resigned a $20,000-a-year seat on the State Supreme Court to run for a post that pays only $10,000. Typically, Gentleman Jim drives into town, sighs into a loud speaker, "I love all of you and, oh, oh, I do need you," then begins hugging and kissing the crowd...
...buoy up rather than drown out the singers. Böhm's stickwork, as spare and exacting as needlepoint, is also an inheritance from Strauss, who, to contain his enthusiasm, often conducted with his left hand in his pocket. Years ago, during a Dresden performance of Die Frau, Strauss forgot himself and signaled a climax by thrusting both fists in the air. Böhm later chided him for it. At the next performance, the composer introduced the climax by shaking only his right hand in the air; with his left, he waved to Böhm, sitting...
...Sound of Sense. Incredibly, Frost complained for years afterward that his grandfather had sent him into farming "to die," and then cheated him out of a larger fortune. Thompson suggests that this notion was typical of Frost's self-indulgent "mythmaking," a compulsion to see himself as a hero battling against insuperable odds. This particular fancy gained a wide audience when Frost went to England in 1912 and published two collections of poems. It was Ezra Pound who, in his review of A Boy's Will, launched the poet and the myth by singling out In Neglect...
...bovine good nature, groaning "Oh no, not again!" at his every line. Julie Andrews stoically survives the pangs of sexual frustration, the pain of childbirth, and the ravages of time, until the make-up department decides she can't take any more, at which point she is allowed to die offscreen...
Some rules never die...