Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opening of Covent Garden's new production of II Trovatore. She passed with flying colors, though she was scored for occasionally giving too free a rein to her voice when spiraling into the upper registers. What thrilled the audiences was the raw power of her bright, heroic soprano, a tidal wave of a voice that all but drowned out Tenor Bruno Prevedi...
First of all, the lyrics were in English, my native tongue. And it was a clever translation too. Like when the soldiers are going off to war, the girls musically instruct them to "be a stoic. Be heroic." Or when the soldiers come in disguised as lecherous Turks, the girls react in horror: "It's too drastic, too fantastic...
...rolls this year, Johnson is expected to win the state by somewhere between 750,000 and 2,000,000. It is taken for granted that Bobby will run far, far behind Johnson on the Democratic ticket, but for Keating to have a chance it will require ticket splitting of heroic and historic proportions. In this, Ken Keating finds himself in the same dilemma as Republican candidates in a score of other states. For as Election Year 1964 nears its end, the big political question is less whether Barry will win or lose than how many Republicans he will drag...
...next three centuries rightly regarded him as the seer, or even the poet, of science. Although he is reputed to be the father of the English essay, he despised the Epicurean life to which most of the essayists have been temperamentally inclined. He was at home in a heroic age, and scorned to be found anywhere but at intellectual headquarters...
...romantic period. Byron, he reveals, slept with his hair in curlers; Sir Walter Scott was as stout a trencherman as any character in his historical novels. Gronow was a friend of Shelley's at Eton, and recalls how the fledgling poet, inspired by Homer's account of heroic single combats before Troy, took on a young baronet named Sir Thomas Styles in a fist fight. "Shelley stalked round the ring and spouted one of the defiant addresses usual with Homer's heroes: the young poet, being a first-rate classical scholar, actually delivered the speech...