Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case, the campaign is already under way. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan threw a straw in the wind by re-appointing hardheaded Lord Poole as co-chairman of the party with Leader of the House Iain Macleod. Poole, who raised record sums for the Tories in the 1955 and 1959 campaigns, is the reputed author of the "Never-Had-It-So-Good" theme that helped return the government at the last election...
...West's maneuvers to counter the disintegration in Laos last week were largely diplomatic. In London, British Foreign Secretary Lord Home called on Russia-co-administrator with Britain of the Geneva accords-to sign a joint appeal that the feuding forces in Laos end their fighting. Fearful that such peace talk would nudge Asian Communist revolutionaries still closer to rival Red China and its "hard line," Russia refused, unless the statement specifically blamed the U.S. for undermining the peace in Laos. Britain vetoed the suggestion...
Died. Sir Leslie Arthur ("Dick") Plummer, 61, British Labor Party M.P. since 1951 and a lifelong socialist who for 17 years pursued a career as a top business-side executive for Lord Beaverbrook's newspapers, then left in 1948 to enter politics and become an antinuclear, anti-Common Market leader of the Labor wing that recently made Harold Wilson party chief; of a stroke; in Manhattan. "I've done well under the capitalist system," he once said, "but I loathe all it represents...
...ideas than a narrative could portray, and so dispensed with distinct characters and made the story of the crossing of the Red Sea only the first half of the work. What then resulted is what one scholarly critic called "an overblown anthem"--a series of resounding proclamation of the Lord's might, many of them superb in their declamatory power--yet the whole work lacks drama...
...soloists carried off the few solos in the oratorio excellently. The women, Junetta Jones and Janet Winburn, sopranos, and Betty Lou Austin, alto, had strong, vibrant voices. The men, all from the Glee Club, equalled them: Robert McKelvey, Clayne Robison, basses, made "The Lord is a Man of War" very convincing; Ivor Francis, tenor, was weak in his upper register, but contributed fluid recitatives and good airs. The orchestra was fine but not overly distinguished...