Word: gibraltarism
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...Dyck painting. Among the bearded divines from the East were the Orthodox Archbishop of Thyateira in a brocade cape of gold and scarlet, the Metropolitan of Carthage, and the Most Rev. Nikodim, Archbishop of Yaroslavl and Rostov, representing the Patriarch of Moscow. Anglican bishops came from New York, Gibraltar, Amritsar in the Punjab, Borneo, Jordan, the Sudan and Quincy, Ill. A congregation of 4,000 was waiting for them...
...whole place is powered by gigantic crystals that store solar energy. It is when Atlantis gets the idea that the same crystal can be used to obliterate all of the Old World east of Gibraltar that the papier-mâché plot rustles a little. The hero, a Greek fisherman vapidly realized by Newcomer Anthony Hall, invades Atlantis, survives the terrible Ordeal of Fire and Water, frees the slaves, foils the villain's plot, and gets away with the hot-eyed princess (Joyce Taylor) just before the whole bloody empire gurgles to the ocean floor...
...Napier North, 79, much-decorated naval veteran who fought vainly for 17 years to clear his name after he was relieved by Winston Churchill as Britain's top admiral in the Mediterranean for allowing six French ships loyal to the Vichy government to slip through the Straits of Gibraltar and sail to Dakar; of pneumonia; in Beaminster, Dorset, England...
With Power to Spare. "Leontyne leads with that voice," says her accompanist. David Garvey. "It is her Rock of Gibraltar." Leontyne's Gibraltar is known technically as a lyric spinto-a high soprano voice with dramatic feeling. No singer today is better capable of straddling both the lyric and the dramatic moods than she is, and none possesses a voice that is more secure throughout its considerable range-the G below middle C to the D above high C. Says she: "I never try an F in public. I sometimes do it in the shower, but there...
Ideological differences among the three men are slight. Heller calls his two colleagues "twin rocks of Gibraltar." Says Tobin: "We are all pragmatists...