Word: gabrielic
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...Jakobsleiter (Jacob's Ladder) is a portion of a grandiose, uncompleted oratorio. A chorus of souls in limbo shuffles about the stage, awaiting reincarnation. Their doubts and frustrations are chastened by the Archangel Gabriel, effectively sung by Bass-Baritone William Dooley. The music, first sketched around World War I and completed later, has more lateromantic intelligibility than Erwartung, but it is so somber and static that one eventually wants to cry out with the chorus: "Is it really to go on like this forever?" Yet there is a moving finale. Soprano Janet Northway, as a soul who is dying...
BORN. To Debby Boone Ferrer, 23, pop singer (You Light Up My Life) and daughter of Balladeer Pat Boone, and Gabriel Ferrer, 22, her personal manager and son of Singer Rosemary Clooney and Actor José Ferrer: an 8-lb. ½oz. son; in Los Angeles. Name: Jordan Alexander...
...repeated his earlier charges of corruption against the former regime. "When things begin to get on the right track," he promised, "we, the men and women in arms, will return to the barracks, where we belong." After briefly answering two questions, he sat down. His hew Information Minister, Gabriel Nimely, then announced, in a flat voice: "Ladies and gentlemen, there will be some executions at 2:30." A reporter asked who was being killed, and Nimely replied: "Enemies of the people." The execution of former officials had been strongly opposed by several foreign countries, including the U.S., as well...
...head of state, he wore sunglasses and a well-pressed fatigue uniform with a hand grenade dangling from one pocket. Newly installed in the executive mansion, Doe summoned the ranking U.S. diplomat, Chargé d'Affaires Julius Walker, and sent his new Foreign Minister, former Opposition Leader Gabriel Baccus Matthews, together with a contingent of troops, to get him. Matthews showed up still dressed in the tattered shorts he had been wearing when released from jail only a few hours before...
...many of the 212,000 white citizens of the breakaway British colony, the election results announced last week indeed marked the end of their world. Robert Gabriel Mugabe, 56, the implacable, ascetic revolutionary and guerrilla leader, had won by a landslide. In three days of balloting for 80 black seats in the 100-member House of Assembly, Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) had swept up 57 seats and 63% of the popular vote. Mugabe thereby became the first revolutionary elected by popular vote in Africa's postcolonial history. Lord Soames, the British-appointed Governor, immediately asked...