Word: knighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...landau drawn by six grey horses, a crowd of 100,000 lined the Royal Mile to the Palace of Holyroodhouse to cheer the sailor King. Then the King was admitted to Scotland's oldest order of chivalry: along with British Foreign Secretary Lord Home, he was dubbed a Knight of the Order of the Thistle...
...rnberg that the opera celebrates. Because Meistersinger, Wagner's only attempt at comedy, deals entirely with real people and with none of the composer's familiar Teutonic gods and goddesses, it demands more realistic stagecraft than most of the Wagnerian operas. Last week, the story of the knight Walther's love for the goldsmith's daughter Eva, and of how he won both her and the mastersingers' song contest with the aid of Sachs, was unfolded with a dramatic skill not always observed on the Met's stage...
There are quite a few people in these parts who would not have wanted Edward J. Mc-Cormack for Senator under any circumstances, despite his efforts to play the part of a knight on a white horse...
...peasant Jof, on the other hand, accepts his visions of the Virgin and Child with the same simplicity and sureness as he does the goodness of being alive: doubt could not arise in his mind with regard to either. It is between these two pure extremes that the knight, Max von Sydow, agonizes, the pain of his struggle exacerbated by the other forms in which faith presents itself: as terrified fanaticism in the monks and soldiers--in the flagellants, as a masochistic disease...
...dismissal of any sort. For the Eliot House Anglicans as for the Adams agnostics, then--as well as for all the peculiar intermediate species between--The Seventh Seal can serve as a needed tonic, by raising once again the religious question in all its jagged complexity; like Bergman's knight one finds it equally hard to believe and not to want to believe, as he sees the church's agents light the faggots round the stake, andthe smoke disappearing into the vacant intersteller spaces beyond...