Word: lush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...triumphant Gotterdammerung, London completes its new recordings of the complete Ring cycle with a wonderful Walkure. Conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, Georg Solti again heaps high all the sumptuous glories of the Wagnerian orchestra, at the same time charging every passage of Wotan's family fracas with drama. The lush and beautiful singing is alive with emotion, the stars being an international assemblage of accomplished artists: Birgit Nilsson as Briinnhilde, Regine Crespin as Sieglinde, Christa Ludwig as Fricka, and Hans Hotter as Wotan. Not quite so great but still outstanding are James King as Siegmund and Gottlob Frick as Hunding...
...world was not the cafes of Paris but the more innocent one of the soda fountains of the U.S. He avoided the hurdy-gurdy of boxing matches, bathing beaches and laundry slung from slum fire stairs. Yet it is Glackens' reportorial honesty that lends to his lush vision of realism of America on the eve of world involvement...
...made it prosper. He also staked out a small patch of orchard near the little town of Berryville, expanded his preserve until it encompassed 5,000 acres, and eventually became the world's largest individual applegrower. Once established as the squire of Rosemont, his baronial estate in the lush, pristine hills near the state's northern border, Byrd plunged into Virginia politics...
...sciences, where knowledge is "glittering, hard, clear." But, as he sees it, this is "professional training," not education; and the trouble is that humanities scholars have joined this "cult of the fact," and now "manage to interpose between us and the texts a barrier of knowledge more lush and impenetrable than our earlier ignorance...
...Philip pines, Rockefeller Foundation scientists have successfully tackled the first part of the problem by developing a short, stiff rice plant that may increase the average yield of each crop as much as 800%. Planted in test plots alongside the standard brand, the new rice rises in lush plants that make its old-fashioned cousin look like a victim of drought. Because it can also produce three crops a year instead of the usual one, it has the incredible potential of raising total output as much...