Word: hectoring
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...capital of Tegucigalpa this week, military officers shouldered aside Supreme Chief of State Julio Lozano Diaz. The framed election, which Lozano staged to transform himself into a legal President (TIME, Oct. 22), proved too raw for Honduras' younger, U.S.-trained officers to choke down. All last week Colonel Hector Caraccioli, 34, a U.S.-trained pilot who commands the air force, and Major Roberto Galvez, 31, an engineering officer who studied at Louisiana State University, talked it over with aging (71) Don Julio. Then, lining up support from General Roque J. Rodriguez, 55, commander of the country's military...
...operations commander. Sir Ian Hamilton, one of the "long tradition of British poet-generals," spoke to his men of Hector and Achilles; his chief of staff shaved each day before battle with Kipling's // propped up beside his mirror. Poet-Soldier Rupert Brooke (who was felled by sunstroke and died before he got to the scene of battle) dreamed crusaders' dreams of Christian soldiers in the mosque...
...harder things to do. Fortmiller, as Ulysses, handled the show's largest part with a competence which was almost impressive--but not quite. Dean Gitter's Menelaus was amusingly smooth and sneaky, and because of superior singing talent came across to the audience somewhat better than Andre Gregory's Hector Charybdis. Nevertheless, the two hit it off well in the dance duet, "Scylla and Charibdis," and Gregory made his part well worth everyone's while in "Hector's Song," which he executued with great chic. Harold Scott made a remarkably good thing out of a small part with his pantomimes...
...beauty of tone that so far nothing had led one to expect. A petrified silence reigns in the house, people hold their breath, amazement and admiration are. blended in a mood akin to fear. There is, in fact, reason for fear until that extraordinary phrase comes to an end. . . -Hector Berlioz, Evenings with the Orchestra...
...Greek nerves on edge, and Hero Achilles quarreled at last with King Agamemnon over a slave girl. Thereafter, while his countrymen lost battle after battle, Achilles sulked in his tent. Disaster threatened. Patroclus, the hero's friend, drove the Trojans back to their gates, but was killed by Hector, who then led a charge that nearly hurled the frightened Greeks into the sea. Forth then Achilles to avenge his friend. The heroes met, and Hector was killed. Achilles himself died at the hand of Paris, whose arrow found his heel, and the war was ended by a trick: Ulysses...