Word: echo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your Aug. 16 report on the bads seems to echo the savory words of Mark Twain, printed in 1892 by the New York Sun: "What I have been through in these two weeks would free a person of pretty much everything in him that wasn't nailed there-any loose thing, any unattached fragment of bone, or meat or morals, or disease or propensities or accomplishments, or what not. And I don't say but that I feel well enough, I feel better than I would if I was dead. I reckon." These words seem appropriate also: "They...
...book, or sumpin'" a crewman remarks) but with a capacity for human error (he rams his boat into the dock, then gets it cut in half by a Japanese destroyer). Above all "the skinny, boyish lieutenant from Boston" is a fount of homely wisdom. One can sense the echo, if only dimly, of the famous Kennedy rhetoric: "They'll do a good job for us" he says of his crew, "if we do one for them...
...first time, Morocco's Ahmed Benhima presided over the Security Council. Turning to the chairman, Ghana's fiery Ambassador Alex Quaison-Sackey cried in an inverted echo of Churchill: "He has been called upon by destiny to preside over the liquidation of the Portuguese Empire...
...beginning so both of us were outside the ring." Inside the ring the battle rages--a battle compounded of human agony and bitter hatred, fought until the body is stripped bare, the soul is exposed as barren, and the cry of "help" is left alone to echo among the ruins. In five years, Albee has composed five rounds in this battle--and the Theater Company of Boston, a new repertory group, is presently performing rounds two and three--The Death of Bessie Smith and The Sandbox...
...Concert Sinatra (Reprise) was made with the use of 24 microphones, 73 musicians, four sound stages and one tired singer. The arrangements are far too. glorious for the songs (Bewitched, This Nearly Was Mine), and there is a hint of embarrassment in Sinatra's voice that the echo chamber could not erase. Still, who sings better out in Hollywood? 21 Golden Hits (Paul Anka; RCA-Victor) celebrates Anka's 21st birthday in the groovy style that he has become accustomed to in his six years as a millionaire. All are songs he wrote himself (Diana, Lonely Boy, Summer...