Word: lay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lay: Senator Everett Dirksen, 72, in Walter Reed Hospital with severe bruises after he fell from his dining room table while attempting to replace a light bulb; Patrick Lyndon Nugent, nine months, running a fever of 104°, high enough to bring a doctor to the White House; Pakistan's President Ayub Khan, 60, reportedly ill with pneumonia, though rumors buzz in Karachi that he has suffered a stroke; Alabama Governor Lurleen Wallace, 41, in St. Margaret's Hospital in Montgomery after an operation for an abdominal infection, having already undergone surgery for cancer three times...
...impersonal geometric abstractions that developed directly out of it in Europe. The camera may well have deprived painting of its reason for being by surpassing it in the portrayal of objective reality. Dada and surrealism, however, made up for that loss by showing that another, still more engrossing vision lay within the fantastic recesses of man's mind...
...visitors' galleries, permits a member to edit gaucheries and gaffes out of his speeches before they appear in the Congressional Record, grants Senators a unique immunity from legal action for what they say in committee or on the floor. Thus last week when two Senators proposed that members lay their financial affairs naked before the world, the club's leading antiquary, Everett Dirksen, rose up in Dickensian outrage...
...hungry as their name. Every one of the five starters scored in double figures, played with poise, aggressiveness and precision rarely seen outside the pros. There was Alcindor, pounding Houston shots right back at the shooters, sinking soft hooks, seizing 18 rebounds and clearing the lane for the driving lay-ups of Lucius Allen; Mike Warren, brilliant with his passing and playmaking; Lynn Shackelford, killing the Cougars with his left-handed jump shots from the corner; and Mike Lynn, matching Allen and Alcindor with 19 points...
Playing Beethoven is a formidable, at times an impossible, undertaking. Perhaps Indjic's failure in this effort lay in not, in either a musical or a spiritual sense, listening for the inner voices. Beethoven is at all times a contrapuntist--essentially a fellow traveller with Bach. Because Indjic failed to convey this essence his performances of the two sonates were generally uninteresting and at times annoying. Nor did Indjic seem to be aware of the overall structure of the works. The first movement of Op. 111 is an uncanny mirror of Beethoven's temperament--taking ideas and treating them...