Word: gibbeted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hoped to be shot as a soldier, but when he faced the gibbet, hundreds heard him say in a clear voice: "I am reconciled to my fate, but not to the mode." He adjusted the knot himself...
...Gibbet & Knot. Major André of the 54th Foot Regiment became the goat of the sorry affair. Handsome, cultivated, a poet-painter as well as adjutant general of the British Army in America, he was as eager for glory as Arnold. Let the American traitor turn over the fortress at West Point through André, and the young English major would be firmly set in his army career for life. Caught in civilian clothes at the very edge of success, tried and convicted as a spy, he gave the world a classic lesson in how a brave and debonair soldier...
...square, which he called the Plaza de Armas, he placed the cornerstone for a cathedral on the eastern side. Then he allotted spaces for a city hall and a governor's palace, to be occupied by himself. In the middle, he added a touch of his own, a gibbet...
...gibbet has long since given way to a graceful fountain, but Pizarro's spirit still inhabits the Plaza de Armas. His mummy, bones protruding through dark yellow skin, lies in a glass case in the cathedral. Lima's charter, kept in the city hall, shows the double loop the illiterate conqueror used as a signature. The fig tree he planted at the palace still lives. In 1935, there was added a 22-foot statue of Pizarro on horseback, which dominated the plaza from a lofty pedestal rising out of the cathedral's steps...
...hear Paul Hindemith conducting is unforgettable. His "Apparebit" for mixed chorus and brass choir is a study in modern music; it was excellently executed by the Glee Club and Choral Society. The "Demon of ht Gibbet," a ballad for men's chorus, was beautifully terrifying. And when the composer turned around on the podium to lead an audience participation tribute to Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge and to "Frau Musica." Sanders Theatre became animated with three part canons...