Word: messiah
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...satisfy his hunger for executive power. There are disillusioned Brazilians aplenty who regard Quadros as unstable and a potential dictator. But among the politicians who sense the Brazilian people's growing anger over their country's slothful government, there is a feeling that Quadros is a political messiah. From all over Brazil last week they were flocking to cling to his robes...
MARTIN G. SCHROEDER Pastor Messiah Lutheran Church Grand Island...
There's a new Messiah out this year (no surprise), but don't buy it. Joan Sutherland is its major attraction, and Sir Adrian Boult its conductor. And unfortunately, Sir Adrian is one of those who thinks that Miss Sutherland can only sing well when she is singing Puccini (a palpable falsehood). Consequently, Sir Adrian has ripped Handel's oratoria from its century, making it as operatic and as nineteenth-century as he can. The result is a sprawling, unkempt orchestra, bawling, dyspeptic singers, and crawling, inept tempos. (London A 4357--you'll recognize the album by the ugly crucifix...
...best Messiah now available is the Angel recording conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent (Angel 3598 C). Its soloist's names are relatively unfamiliar in this country (with the possible exception of the tenor, Richard Lewis), but Sir Malcolm, unlike Sir Adrian, has restrained his extravagances, and has produced a restrained, lyrical and perfectly balanced Messiah...
...Lawrence has been so thoroughly bunked and debunked by his biographers and by his own accounts that no one can be sure now where man and myth divide. But Author Nutting argues persuasively for his theories, which sketch a man frightened by his own vision of himself as a messiah...