Word: hamilton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...William Hamilton, husband of Lord Nelson's celebrated mistress, Emma, bought it from a Neapolitan collection. In 1801 it was sold at Christies' for 39 guineas, and ten years later, the second Earl of Radnor bought it. It stayed sequestered in the Radnor family seat, Longford Castle, until recently -when the eighth Earl sent it back to Christies' to help pay duties on his father's estate...
...sang with the casual magnificence that is well known to Cambridge audiences. She sings without ever forcing a note, jes' letting that cool voice float out of her slightly open mouth. Although the humorous songs in the Baez canon are superb, the quieter ones are even better, and Mary Hamilton, which Miss Baez sings softly with very little modulation in volume, was clearly the high point of the evening...
...finish it with what I've got. So what the hell can I do?" Lady Bird, on Daughter Luci's dress for her baptism into the Roman Catholic Church: "About as inconspicuous as Brigitte Bardot." On Lynda Bird's boy friend, Actor George Hamilton: "Part of the wine of life, exciting and heady." On the surprises in L.B.J.'s bedroom: "I walked in this morning for coffee, and who should be sitting there but Richard Nixon." L.B.J., musing about Vice President Hubert Humphrey: "If I could just breed him to Calvin Coolidge...
Sams himself testified that while in the Panther Party he always considered himself "Stokely's man." On the stand, Sams tended to speak very quickly, to mispronounce names (such as Fred "Hamilton" for Fred Hampton), to offer political explanations that were unintelligible. When mentioning Stokely Carmichael, however, he spoke more slowly and in a tone that seemed to indicate great respect...
...near-miracle which Barbirolli wrought with the Halle Orchestra is legendary. The orchestra had been without a permanent conductor since the retirement of Hamilton Harty, a decade before Barbirolli's arrival in 1943. Barbirolli managed to make Halle one of the world's leading orchestras, and in the process gained more control over his own florid style. The recordings which he made with the Halle during his decades of association with it are some of the finest in the literature. The Mahler First Symphony which he did with them for Vanguard is a definitive version, a masterpiece which puts...