Word: echo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Down in the islands, the sound of crashing surf was temporarily drowned out by the echo of charge and countercharge. Aroused pro-and anti-Paiewonsky factions fired hundreds of messages to Washington, about 9 to 1 in Paiewonsky's favor. Said Novelist Herman (The Caine Mutiny) Wouk, who lives on St. Thomas: "Paiewonsky is the best man." In Charlotte Amalie, the Seventh-day Adventist Church said prayers for Paiewonsky...
...hear the uncomfortable echo of "Not everyone who says, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the will of My Father...
...desertion of Liu and Timur and Turandot's vicious behavior towards her subjects and suitors alike was not condoned by Puccini. During the final duet (the part he never completed), the composer intended Calaf and Turandot "to descend through love to the level of mankind." They would at times echo Liu's touchingly simple music. Her sacrifice would not have been in vain. But, at the same time, through the sheer excitement of this last duet, the audience would not regret this sacrifice, but instead would realize that the grand love of Calaf and Turandot required Liu's death...
Memories Are Made of This (Ray Conniff Orchestra and Chorus; Columbia). Suds and saccharin by one of the slickest arrangers in the business. Filtered through the echo chamber of the mind, Conniff's heavily percussioned memories sound like nobody else's, but they bear some familiar titles: Moments to Remember, My Foolish Heart, No Other Love...
...night sky near Washington, D.C. last April 22, Gallet aimed a radar beam at what he believed to be a pipe that would carry the signal to a point in the South Pacific Ocean just off the southern tip of South America. Two-tenths of a second later, an echo came bounding back-after a round trip of 37,000 miles...