Word: hectored
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BERLIOZ BIRTHDAY BASH. The Harvard Wind Ensemble, along with the Northeastern Concert Band, honors the bicentennial of Hector Berlioz with a concert conducted by Harvard Assistant Band Director Nathaniel H. Dickey, and Northeastern Band Director Allen Feinstein. Each ensemble performs its own repertoire followed by a joint performance of Berlioz’s “Grande Symphonie funèbre et triumphale.” The concert also includes classic works for winds like Walter Piston’s “Tunbridge Fair,” Gustav Holst’s First and Second Suites for Military Band...
Churchill's genius was that he knew how to hector. "He turned out words and phrases in tumultuous torrent and inexhaustible abundance - inspiring, exhorting, moving, persuading, cajoling, thundering, bullying, abusing and enraging," writes Cannadine. Churchill's collected speeches run to 4 million words, including the great phrases "blood, toil, tears and sweat" and "their finest hour." His off-the-cuff gems were well-rehearsed, but they rallied Britain in its darkest hour...
Flashiness is something this industry has largely lost. The exception: Advanced Micro Devices CEO Hector Ruiz brought Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash onstage for a rendition of Knockin' on Heaven's Door. It may become Comdex's eulogy...
...Springs for a night at Hope Springs. Formerly a residential hotel, Hope Springs is a low-key and welcoming 10-room inn done over in an austere '50s style. Soak your tired feet in its flow-through system of three spring-fed mineral pools, and say hello to Hector, a wirehaired terrier rescued by manager Nancy Morgan from the surrounding desert. (The lobby fire pit, done over as a tile fountain, is Hector's unofficial water bowl.) Better yet, stay in town--at L'Horizon, where Marilyn Monroe always took Room 3C, or at Herbert Burns' 1957 Orbit In, which...
...Christina Hector (N) 2:21.28, 2. Beverly Whelan 2:21.58, 3. Samantha Piper...