Word: glow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flower that adorns the marble entrance foyer, and a 9-ft. blue spruce upstairs that is trimmed with ornaments that the Nixons have used for years. The tree in the family quarters stands on a revolving base that plays Jingle Bells. Outside, for the first time, tiny white lights glow from the boxwoods that line the front driveway. To TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angelo, Mrs. Nixon explained: "You can't overdo at Christmas time. The more the better, so far as I'm concerned...
Momentary Glow. Gibbon got off to an unlikely start to be historian of anything. Until he was in his teens, he was so frail that his father, Edward Gibbon, gave the name Edward to several succeeding sons-just in case. By his own account, young Gibbon "swallowed more Physic than food," had a "strange nervous affection" in his legs, and was bitten by "a dog most vehemently suspected of madness...
...became a Roman Catholic. His distressed father shipped him to Switzerland, and on Calvin's home ground the conversion was undone. "My temper is not very susceptible of enthusiasm," Gibbon wrote. Yet once Catholicism, which he had described as "a momentary glow of Enthusiasm," had faded, he rekindled the glow for a girl he met during his Swiss exile, Susanne Curchod, destined to be remembered as the mother of the writer and celebrated salon keeper, Mme. de Staël. The glow was not strong enough to survive separation and the disapproval of relatives...
...unusual ability on the part of the audience to take the whole thing seriously. But the music is Mozart at his best, requiring only a great conductor and a great cast to do it justice. It gets just that. Colin Davis fans the music to a fierce, steady glow. Highpoints: George Shirley's rocketlike traversal of Fuor del mar-a crippling catalogue of coloratura devices -and Elettra's two arias sung by Pauline Tinsley, a British dramatic soprano whose voice has an electric radiance that recalls Ina Souez and Ljuba Welitsch at their best...
...with the wisdom of the world, I am forced not to change society, but to struggle with it in order to maintain the identity I worked 22 years to establish. With all life's past glories and associations reflected in my maiden name, I find it difficult to glow with pride when addressed by an unfamiliar term that was tacked on much like a cattle brand to accommodate a society that still regards women as possessions. Nor can I delight in the inconvenience and expense caused when driver's license, bank accounts, stocks and legal records must...