Word: jilt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Undoubtedly, Reagan's denial of interest in the vice-presidency is reinforced by his belief that he can win the top spot. His delirious reception in South Carolina two weeks ago, the apparent readiness of Southern Republicans to jilt faithful old Dick Nixon if the charismatic Californian will only whistle, and his high popularity back home support that conviction. So do his conservative friends, who think a Rockefeller-Reagan ticket would be just fine-the other way around...
...entente with Franklin Roosevelt, "is the science of who gets what, when and why." Under Lyndon Johnson, who clears nothing with George Meany, labor has found Hillman's three Ws aggravatingly hard to get. Yet, despite its president's recent hints that the A.F.L.-C.I.O. may jilt the Democratic Party, the federation's energetic Committee on Political Education (COPE) has already made clear that its 1966 electoral strategy will be, as usual, to support the Democrats...
...company's credo, the opening production was the U.S. premiere of Argentine Composer Alberto Ginastera's fiercely modern Don Rodrigo. Set in 8th century Spain, the opera chronicles the rise of a headstrong young king and, after he has had the bad taste to violate and jilt the daughter of a comrade in arms, his subsequent fall. The performance, honed by five weeks of 13-hour-a-day rehearsals, was excellent. The starkly stylized sets and costumes complemented the jaggedly atonal score; the acting and singing were superb...
Perhaps the treatment worked because it showed her that she was not alone; in opera, as in life, lovers frequently jilt their girls-if they don't die first. At any rate, the case is probably the most spectacular instance of the curative powers of opera, although Voltaire later observed that attending it was good for the digestion. Otherwise, the great philosopher had no use for opera. "Anything that is too stupid to be spoken," he said, "is sung...
Farthest-out are the "show cars " Jilt by pros and toured as an inspiration to the amateur hobbyists These include "Car Craft Dream Rod," with a Volkswagen front end, a Ford engine Pontiac door and fender panels, a Studebaker top, and other parts from various foreign sports cars-all assembled in the latest custom wrinkle, called asymmetrical styling (both headlights, for instance are on the left side...