Word: harknesses
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From the ceiling of the Capitol office hangs a magnificent chandelier, circa 1802. Its crystals oscillate freely. They touch and tinkle in a sparkling Mozartian minuet. But hark! Whence comes this counterpoint that shivers the crystals into new and shimmering song? It comes from the man behind the desk-a big-handed, big-boned man with a lined, cornfield face and greying locks that spiral above him like a halo run amok. He speaks, and the words emerge in a soft, sepulchral baritone. They undulate in measured phrases, expire in breathless wisps. He fills his lungs and blows word-rings...
...stern and energetic old lady, a file of young girls dressed in blue jumpers and white blouses, their arms laden with daffodils, trooped across Manhattan's fashionable upper East Side. The girls marched into Central Park, gathered at the statue of William Shakespeare, knelt, and sang Hark, Hark the Lark in homage to the Bard...
...about the Requiem and this performance was the combination of sweetness with simplicity and order. Faure scored it for small forces and encapsulated loudness and brass entrances within the quietness and reserve of its larger structure; Munch never violated his intention. This combination of restraint and feeling seems to hark back much to the Enlightenment, for Faure's paradise is a place of rest with no harrowing alternative of hell. He is essentially a humanist who finds the Christian forms both beautiful and adaptable to his own feelings...
...Hark! the herald angels sing...
...Flying Trapeze Sir: TIME made these simple mistakes [in the March 28 story on William Saroyan's play, Sam, the Highest Jumper of Them All}: 1) Sam Hark-Harkalark [not Harkaharka-lark]. 2) 100,000 [not 500,000] defective ?5 [not pound] notes...