Word: facet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well. The opening aria "Let us be free," for example, is charged with the kind of youthful brio that was to come to full flower in Rigoletto, written five years later. Fresh, forcefully direct, the Attila score was polished for six months by Conductor Amaducci, until each facet sparkled. The result was worthy of a setting in any opera house...
...memoirs busting out all over about life under John Kennedy, last week's crop was mostly devoted to a re-examination of the Bay of Pigs fiasco (see TIME ESSAY). But in LIFE magazine this week, Historian Arthur Schlesinger moves on to discuss another facet of the New Frontier-the President's disenchantment with the State Department...
...resorts in the U.S. and not mention that heaven called Hawaii? The fantastic beauty of the deep blue-green sea and rugged lava mountains drowned in golden sun! The languid, relaxing atmosphere! The feeling of being far away in a foreign land, yet knowing that this is really another facet of that jewel...
...recent years the courts have steadily expanded the rights of children to sue for damages resulting from prenatal injury. Now before the courts is a case that marks a milestone in this facet of the law. The plaintiff is an illegitimate child, conceived during the rape of a hospitalized mental patient. Suit has been filed in her behalf to recover damages for the mental anguish of being born a bastard...
...have one facet of genius, and only one. I have an infinite capacity for taking pains. My passion is for lucidity. I don't mean simplemindedness. If people can't understand it, why write it? Swift read his stuff to the stable boys...