Word: faint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City of Boston and which would hopefully blend in with historic Old Boston in a sensible way, but without any effort to build a $20 million colonial building with leaded windows. So we held a national competition and came up with a very exciting design which some faint-hearted people, you might remember, were somewhat afraid of. The building will be and is already being described as the most exciting public building to be built in America in this century. I'm sure in the years to come that many people will come to Boston for the primary purpose...
Though none of the candidates is well known politically, there are three who nevertheless stand out as serious contenders. Joseph L. Alioto, 51, an attorney and self-made millionaire, is, in the faint praise of one observer, "probably the least unqualified." He has been president of the board of education, chairman of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency and is well-connected in the business world. Despite that, his name is far from being a household word. When his big, orange-lettered posters began appearing, one voter quipped: "I've heard of Aly Khan and I've heard...
...John Kenneth Galbraith appeared at a picket line of striking television employees in order to show that he would not cross it, Buckley wrote in his column: "It was a nostalgic demonstration of an old faith, rather as if Marlene Dietrich, emulating the Victorian ladies of yesteryear, were to faint upon hearing an obscenity." Buckley summed up the attitude of Texas Republicans facing the approaching presidential election: "The dilemma is how to be, at once, both a winner and a Republican. That is the lot of the woman, as La Rochefoucauld observed, who is at once inflexibly virtuous and violently...
Enter Laurence Senelick as Reb Azrielke. For the remaining two acts he commands the stage, judging the rightness of the dybbuk's claims, then bringing the powers of the underworld against him. Senelick is by turns pitious and imperious, awful in the robes of his rabbinical office, then faint in the arms of a friend. His lines are difficult, full of the persistent legalisms that could have reduced tragedy to laughable pontification. Set against the virtuosity of his performance is the disembodied voice of the dybbuk, sounding all the more despairing and alone in its electronic chill. There, away from...
...recent releases resurrect the ghosts of GERALDINE FARRAR (Everest/Scala) and MARY GARDEN (Odyssey), titans of opera's "golden age" who died early this year. These old, faint and scratchy performances used to be collector's items before being reissued; they are still priceless to those who are nostalgic about the history of glorious, if defiantly individualistic, singing...