Word: hectoring
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...Hector: Not THIS one: I'll TELL it to YOU after DINNER. I think YOU'LL LIKE it. THE TRUTH is, I MADE it UP for YOU, and was looking FORWARD to the pleasure of TELLING it to YOU. But in a MOMENT of IMPATIENCE at being TURNED OUT of the ROOM, I THREW it AWAY on your FATHER...
...extraneous noises were about two-thirds Garden St. traffic and one-thirds Garden St. traffic and one-third backstage foul-ups. Hector's strange speech patterns, as elucidated by Donald Lyons, are without known cause. It may seem a pointless quibble to mention the surface noise; but Heartbreak House is not the first play ever given in Agassiz, and it is the height of sloppiness not to know the auditorium's accoustical possibilities and impossibilities by opening night...
...year-old Captain Shotover Alexander MacMillan struggles manfully with a nearly impossible assignment. Although he has moments of effectiveness, he often overacts, and he does not convey the impression of age. Mr. Lyons (Hector) can not fit his irascible, humorous manner to the serious lines he has to deliver, but when he is supposed to be funny, he frequently...
Their "Ride in the Chariot" is well harmonized and lively, and "Hector the Garbage Collector" retains all his old charm. "Tobacco Is A Dirty Weed" comes off less cleanly, but I still like...
Perhaps. But as Composer Hector Berlioz himself acknowledged in another passage of his Evenings with the Orchestra, the all-powerful tenor is anything but a hardy breed. Tenor voices are comparatively rare: in one study, made in Germany, more than three-quarters of the male voices were naturally baritone or bass. And the tenor must sing much of the time toward the top of his range and volume, subjecting his vocal cords to cruel and unusual punishment. Small wonder that tenors are almost always in short supply and often have king-sized egos ("Good," "Marvelous," Caruso used to write below...