Word: gamut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...true. If our youth is rightly instructed in the faith of our fathers, in the traditions of our country, in the dignity of each individual man, then our power will be stronger than any weapon of destruction that man can devise. And now as to this whole gamut of Socialist infections-I say to you, the neighbors of my childhood, the sons and daughters of my native state, God has blessed us with another wonderful word-heritage. The great documents of that heritage are not from Karl Marx. They are from the Bible, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution...
...more than any other man, is responsible for the humanization of American history. Through his writing, editing, and teaching he has led the movement away from the study of history as a series of political and economic events toward a comprehensive picture of American life. His writings run the gamut from a study of the influence the Colonial Merchants had on the War of Independence to a treatise on the mergence of new trends in the practice of etiquette...
...Soprano Gamut. Next night came the company's first Norma in nine years. Written in 1831, Norma was one of the last of the bel canto operas, designed chiefly for vocal acrobatics. The scene is Gaul of the Druids' day. Norma is a high priestess who has broken her vow of chastity and borne the Roman proconsul two children, only to find that he really loves a younger priestess. Much of the melody is limp as a drink of water and the harmonies have the simple severity of Stonehenge, but fastidious fans love...
...role has been tackled by the world's top prima donnas from Giuditta Pasta (who created it) to Jenny Lind, Lilli Lehmann and Rosa Ponselle. Norma is on stage-and singing-for almost two hours, or long enough to satisfy the heartiest spotlight appetite. She ranges the emotional gamut from mother love to infanticide. Best of all, the part is almost impossible to sing, and few of today's voices can both spin the intricate tracery of its high coloratura and belt out the chesty low tones...
Abbotts &Zizzamias. Today's students run the gamut from A (Abbott, Adams, Atwater, Atwood) to Z (Zalecki, Zapata. Zen, Zezza, Zizzamia). The 1.278 freshmen represent 526 different schools, more than half of them public high schools, and four out of every ten students get financial aid. It is quite possible, says Classicist John Finley, to have in one house "the grandson of one of the greatest modern novelists [James Joyce], the grandson of one of the greatest modern painters [Henri Matisse], and the great, "great, great, great, and ad infinitum grandson...