Word: hectoring
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...would have been surprised if they could have peered over the shoulder of Alfred A. Knopf some years ago and seen a letter which had come to him from Critic Ernest Newman in London. Publisher Knopf had asked his favorite writer on music to do a book on Composer Hector Berlioz, the erratic red-haired Frenchman who shocked his igth Century contemporaries with what then seemed to be defiant and unaccountable music. Critic Newman agreed with his publisher that Berlioz' story was fascinating. But, he pointed out, Berlioz was unlike most musicians. He had been able to talk about...
...matured poet before him, Robinson has turned to Biblical and historical themes: Nicodemus, Sisera. Gideon, the Prodigal Son, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Ponce de Leon. Most of them are written in Robinson's familiar, intricately lucid blank verse. Of the lyrics, many a reader will prefer the verses on "Hector Kane." who, at 85, was still skeptical of the passage of time, died of a stroke in the midst of his skeptic's boast...
...principal concert of the fall season will be given in New Haven on the eve of the Yale football game. After that the members of the club will concentrate on preparation for the presentation, in conjunction with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Radcliffe Choral Society, of Hector Berlioz's "Damnation Faust" in Symphony Hall, probably in December. During the spring there will be the usual Smith and Wellesley concerts and the annual spring trip...
Obscure in Manhattan was Hector O. Hamilton until, last March, his design for the Soviet Union's new Palace of Soviets suddenly won Red favor in competition with work submitted by eight world-great modernist architects, notably happy Josef Urban (TIME, March...
...They have 1,200 men and women working now on excavations for the Palace of Soviets," cried Hector O. Hamilton. "It will be ridiculous?positively ridiculous? if American firms do not obtain at least $20,000,000 worth of orders in connection with the projects I am undertaking for Russia...