Word: horning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presidential message galloped up Capitol Hill at a time when Indians, for all their poverty, may be in a stronger position than they were in the Battle of the Little Big Horn. The supposedly vanishing Americans now number 600,000, more than twice the estimated U.S. Indian population at the time of Custer's last stand...
...years he has lived, the countries he has visited, the great men he has known--they shine in the eyes of this raw-fisted footsoldier from days past. To be in his presence is to be in the presence of unmistakable wisdom. To be eyed through his legendary horn rims is to be subjected to a glance from which no secret, dark or innocent, can be safe. He is a statesman, and a scholar...
Trumpeted to dinner by the horn blast from Aida, 232 guests marched into the dining room at the Birnam Wood Country Club in Santa Barbara, Calif., to raise hosannas to Soprano Lotte Lehmann on her 80th birthday. It was the sort of occasion that called forth a telegram of congratulations from West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger and commanded the presence of such votaries as Tenor Lauritz Melchior, Actress Judith Anderson and Conductor Zubin Mehta. "I am excited and overwhelmed," said Lehmann, who retired 17 years ago but still teaches master classes in voice at the University of California...
Next to a loud and generously used horn, the favorite way for infantile motorists to sound off is with a noisy exhaust.... As one way of rating your own driving ability, check how quietly you drive. The fewer unnecessary noises you make, the sounder your driving...
Vincent Persichetti's Masquerade (1966) was the most recently composed and the most colorfully exciting offering. Beginning with a stunning passage for bassoons, saxes, and solo horn, the composition also contains a lovely oboe solo, and an evocative passage for flute, piccolo, and bass drum side. In addition, Persichetti calls for hammer and anvil, four timpani, xylophone, sizzle cymbal, ratchet, marimba sticks on suspended cymbals, and bare hands on snare drum. At the end of the composition, all these returned in a brilliant overall unity...