Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Barth's Perseus is twenty years past the glorious days of the slaying of Medusa--he is impotent, his wife sleeps around. Pegasus can no longer fly and Bellerophon has become a professor of literature. Barth's heroes have unheroic self-doubts, think dirty thoughts, study poli sci and get high on hippomenes. Zeus, in the form of a high school drop-out, rapes unsuspecting women and Bellerophon is dismissed by all as another quack would-be hero. Heroic love is forever lost in the sexual profusion and confusion of these post-Freudian ancient Greeks...
...this time for all the marbles. He had survived not only the broken leg, but a broken finger and an 0 for 47 batting slump last year, and as he took the field in Tiger Stadium on Monday night, the opportunity was there for the magnificent finale to his glorious carreer...
Ling, who had made it out of dirt-poor Oklahoma roots to build a successful electronics company, had enough vision for everybody. Other men had swapped complex packages of securities in their companies to stitch together glorious empires. Ling could do all that and make it sound different and better. When making presentations to potential merger partners, he would take a piece of chalk or a felt pen and sketch marvelous projections of future earnings. He sounded like a cross between an evangelist and Univac. Not even the financial experts fully grasped how Ling intended to meet his predictions...
Considering the difficulty of the Stravinsky Symphony in Three Movements, the Cantabrigia brought it off quite well. There were some glorious moments--such as the tricky and very exposed bassoon duet played by Gregory Rewoldt (who was noticeably outstanding all evening) and colleague Winifred Ramsey; likewise, the trombones were often exceptional. But, as throughout the program, I felt that things could have been much more exciting. As is so often the case, with a bit more attention to dynamics, rhythm and clarity on the part of both players and conductor, what was overall a commendable concert might have been outstanding...
...save a par. Nicklaus had bogeyed the 16th, Jacklin bogeyed both of the final holes, and the Merry Mexican, crying, "I'm the greatest chipper in the world!", became the first golfer since Arnold Palmer (1961-62) to win two straight British Opens. Although Nicklaus lost his glorious quest, Bobby Jones would agree that, on the bonnie Muirfield moors, both he and Trevino struck resonant tunes of glory...