Word: loving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...circus (or circle) will be made into a rectangle, and the Edwardian buildings now surrounding it will be replaced by boxlike modern structures on which advertising signs will be part of the design, instead of being grafted on, as at present. The famed center statue of Eros, god of love, which makes the traffic go round, will still be there but no longer the center of things. Sentimentalists wonder whether the new, streamlined circus will still appeal to London's lonely lads and lasses (including streetwalkers) as a rendezvous...
...been invited to negotiate, were already laying plans for a seven-day celebration as soon as independence is announced. And Kasavubu himself, a deceptively mild-looking man who dreams of rebuilding the fabled 14th century Kingdom of the Congo, broadly hinted that his people would not wait forever. "I love visiting Belgium," he said. "But it must not be for too long...
...Fellowship of Reconciliation, which has 15 members "at least in communication with each other," exists for pacifists "in the broad sense." Fellowship members "refuse to participate in any war or to sanction military preparation," "seek to avoid bitterness and contention, and to maintain the spirit of self-giving love...
Through a series of flash-backs, Stewart recalls, successively, how as a youth he fell in love with the beauteous and fragile Catherine Carey; how the pressure of family and circumstance forced him to give her up; how she flirted around in college, then married a quasi-brutish, brilliant and sensitive medical student, Jerome Martell; how Martell, in his masculine fervor, was unfaithful to her, then left her to fight in Spain; how Martell was officially reported tortured and killed by the Nazis; how he, Stewart, at last marries his Catherine; and how, miraculously, the invincible Martell proved that reports...
Munch cut, among other numbers, the recitatives describing the suicide of Judas and the love of Mary Magdalene, the lovely bass aria "Mache dich, mein Herze, rein," and the masterful tenor aria "Geduld, geduld...