Word: lear
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...thoughts fly FAR AWAY. He is standing high up on a warm, grassy hill... SUDDENLY Paul's day-dreaming is over." And the songs on the album include "Strawberry Fields Forever" ("I buried Paul") and "I Am the Walrus." The latter song ends with a quote from King Lear- "Is he dead? Sit you down, father, rest you" -and includes, according to LaBour, "the radio broadcast that never took place announcing Paul's death to the world...
...continues, a trifle apocalyptically, "recalled to me vividly the lurid Dore illustrations in an edition of Dante's Inferno among my father's books." He took to brooding on the Passion of Christ (whom he addresses somewhat embarrassingly as "You") as a tragedy "in the sense that Lear's was, or Macbeth...
...subject is a whale; the insight is into man. For Dr. Scheffer's supreme achievement is to take the king of the ocean's beasts, careering half-blindly across the world's seas, and cast him as Lear...
CLEVELAND, OHIO. Musicarnival. On Time, a new revue, takes some of the unlikeliest sources-King Lear, The Seagull, Turgenev's Fathers and Sons and the Bible -to illustrate its theme, the generation gap through the ages. It was compiled by Howard da Silva, Felix Leon and Alfred Drake, who also stars; music and lyrics by Charles Burr...
American League Manager Mayo Smith of Detroit then rushed in the ace of his own mound staff, Denny McLain. The Tiger righthander had flown home in his personal Lear jet to have his deteriorating teeth examined, returned just in time to dress and warm up for the fourth inning. McCovey greeted McLain by rapping his third pitch over the rightfield fence for the fifth home run of the game...