Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sighed the beautiful Countess of Guiccioli, Who slept with Lord Byron habitually: "How I wish that George Gordon Would give up his lordin' And attend to his pleasures less ritually...
MARIO SERENI, a 29-year-old Italian born lyric baritone, has been properly praised for his fine, resonant voice and roasted for wooden acting. As Lord Hepry Ashton in Lucia di Lammermoor this season, he sang well, was no more notable for oaken attitudes than many other performers in an art form that pays little heed to Stanislavsky. While the Met, with Robert Merrill and Warren, has enough starring baritones, Sereni will be useful in such important feature roles as Marcello (Bohème) and Silvio (Pagliacci...
...Grand Hotel, dapper officials gazed out over the heat-shimmering waters of the Blue Nile, sipped whiskies and soda, conversed alternately in the clipped accents of Oxford and Cambridge and the throaty lilt of Arabic. Less prosperous politicos gathered for drinks or coffee at Pagoulatos' Confectionery and Bar Lord Byron...
...Thirteen years after the Dervishes of the Mahdi killed Britain's famed fanatical General Charles Rogers ("Chinese") Gordon at the end of a ten-month siege in 1885, Lord Kitchener returned for revenge and to forestall French expansion in the area, slew 10,563 Dervishes in a brief pitched battle at Omdurman. Among Kitchener's cavalry subalterns in the battle: Winston Spencer Churchill, then...
Always and almost everywhere, dancing has accompanied religion. The Egyptians danced for their sacred bull, and the Babylonians danced in their temples and processions. King David "danced before the Lord with all his might" (11 Samuel 6:14), and the Old Testament Hebrews danced in their vineyards on the Day of Atonement. The Greeks danced in honor of Apollo, of Pan, of Artemis, and in the ecstatic mysteries of Dionysus. In Islam, the Mevlevi dervishes still dance in patterns designed to expound cosmic laws as well as to achieve a state of inner peace...