Word: flamingly
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...President has violated something too basic and precious, though sometimes hard to perceive and explain. For Nixon, a recovery of trust seems impossible, his hold on office a precarious thing. The mood is one of passive disillusionment, but here and there it flickers into the kind of flame that could consume...
...with binoculars, they saw only a faint smudge near the bright planets Venus and Jupiter. From their orbital vantage, the Skylab astronauts found that the comet had suddenly become bewilderingly faint; only a few days before, they had enthusiastically described it as glowing "yellow and orange, just like a flame...
...peculiar how the soul protects the thin flame of consciousness against the violent gusts of emotions. How in moments of great triumph and tragedy alike, it shuts and bolts its windows, keeping the littler flame in stillest darkness with nothing but a distant echo of the agitation outside...
...Troyens' music is at once delicately concentrated and surcharged with an agitato inner flame. It is as short-winded as Mozart and as elongated as Wagner; rarely does Berlioz repeat himself, yet he spins out one duet (Cassandra and her lover Coroebus) for 15 minutes. Never a piker in such matters, Berlioz made heroic stage demands that included hunters on horseback, ships sailing out of a harbor, a stream that turns into a "roaring waterfall" and, of course, a large wooden horse...
...Habits get you through life, not into it," Merriwether cries, and the male-menopausal debate-life-as-reason-and-light v. life-as-Dionysian-flame-is on. No novelist could improve upon Richard (Golk) Stern's inventory of what Merriwether has to lose. The Stern Cambridge is full of 90-year-old gabled and bay-window-bellied houses, just a gentlemanly stroll from the Square's latest Marx brothers festival. In a hundred Victorian parlors like the Merriwethers', attractive parents and children play recorders and sing lieder or Cole Porter. Leather editions on subjects like Provencal poetry...