Word: ninth
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...priestess of fertility, this Danielle Steel. After the birth of her ninth child, Zara, and the publication of her 23rd book, both mother and author are doing well. Steel these days enters best-seller lists at the top. Kaleidoscope, one of her better tear-stained efforts, is about a less fortunate lady, Hilary Walker, whose father strangled her mother and then killed himself, who was torn from her two beloved sisters, indentured in foster homes and raped by adolescents of both sexes. But Hilary, with eyes like green ice or emerald fire, is a survivor who goes on to make...
Artists and administrators need the courage to chart a more rewarding course, but audiences do too. Those who hailed the deaf Beethoven at the Ninth Symphony's unveiling, who lined the streets of Milan for Verdi's funeral, who wept as the dying Brahms took a final public bow at a performance of his Fourth Symphony, who rioted at the debut of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring were no more sophisticated than today's listeners. It is simply that no one told them they were listening to classical music. What they experienced was not the passive appreciation...
...siecle 1890s. This book was, as Ellmann notes, a "tragedy of aestheticism," a cautionary tale about the perils of unbridled hedonism. But the prose was so alluring that few noticed the message. Wilde ignored it too. Involved in a love affair with Lord Alfred Douglas, third son of the ninth Marquess of Queensberry, he actively succumbed to a course of conduct that would destroy...
...SPORT OF NATURE by Nadine Gordimer. In her ninth novel, the distinguished South African writer tells the visionary story of a wayward young white woman's efforts to help turn her homeland over to its long-suffering inhabitants...
BEETHOVEN: SYMPHONY NO. 9 (EMI). Lean and mean on original instruments, the mighty Ninth, brilliantly conducted by Roger Norrington...