Word: hectors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their ballots. After a half-hour's voting, the booths were closed to allow time for more shoving and throwing of fishheads. After 90 minutes of such relaxation, voting began again. At length, from the balcony above the main gate of University Building, Glasgow's Principal Sir Hector Hetherington read out the results. The race had been close, but the Scotchest Scot of them all had won. Glasgow's new Rector was John MacDonald MacCormick, leader of the Covenant. "Second: Lord Inverchapel...
...HECTOR REICHARD...
Posterity, ever since Composer Schumann's day, has been listening to the huge resounding and romantic symphonies of Hector Berlioz, and trying to decide just how good "this Frenchman" was. Today 81 years after his death, detractors of Berlioz still scorn him as a crude noisemaker who marshaled whole regiments of instruments and singers to gain his fantastically emotional effects, although most of them will grudgingly admit that he contributed some new colors to the palette of orchestration. His fervent admirers, even those who are troubled at the ease with which he passes from the sublime to the banal...
...personal life was breathless and obsessive. He was continually in & out of love, twice halfheartedly attempted suicide to prove his devotion. His punishment for one clumsy attempt at sea, Hector told a friend, was "to swallow a lot of salt water and be yanked out like a fish . . ." He was married twice, both times unhappily; his only son Louis became a sailor, died two years before his famous father...
...Carthage had achieved a success, a friend remarked that people were finally coming to his operas. Replied the ailing Berlioz: "Yes, but I am going." Six years later, Berlioz was gone. At the end came an incident that seemed to typify the whole life of the emotional genius Hector Berlioz...