Word: heard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...distressed to find Harvard no more supportive for a homosexual than my home town in Ontario. I have encountered too much anti-gay feeling here, heard too many bad jokes, seen too much mimicry, both innocent and cruel. Perhaps I am not being fair, for I consider any prejudice to be too much in an environment boasting intelligence. The right for someone to love who they choose and to fuck who they are attracted to seems utterly obvious to me. My right to share same-sex love is as obvious as my parents' right to express their heterosexuality. Most...
...council also heard school officials and School Committee members present plans for expansion of the Cambridge Alternative Public School and proposed high school athletic facilities...
...largest bomb developed had been the "blockbuster," so named because it was capable of devastating an entire city block. The Hiroshima bomb had a destructive force equivalent to 1300-2000 blockbusters and the one A-bomb virtually pulverized a city of more than 300,000 inhabitants. When President Truman heard the news, he said: "This is the greatest thing in history...
...opera seria ever written. Indeed Idomeneo contains some of Mozart's greatest music, much of it achieved with effects that were novel then -and are striking today. In the awesome Act II storm scene, Mozart played with orchestral color like a would-be Romanticist. Never before had Munich heard the morose strains of muted brass. He also gave the chorus a vital role that would have been daring even by the standards of French opera. The arias of opera seria had traditionally been set pieces; Mozart often led the music directly into the next bit of action, joining...
...arrive in the U.S. disheveled, talked out and a year late. As Evelyn Waugh noted, however, "punctuality is the virtue of the bored," and there was little time to be that last September when 800 pages of his diaries fell on London like a V1. The buzz had been heard for some time. The Observer and the London Sunday Times had teased a few thin, gray hairs of scandal with prepublication excerpts. Christopher Sykes' authorized biography appeared soon after. It made ample use of the diaries that Waugh began in 1911 at age seven and continued...