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...Walkure (The Valkyrie) is the second opera in the sequence. Several of the Ring's most appealing characters are introduced, including the doomed incestuous lovers Siegmund and Sieglinde, and Brunnhilde, the warrior maiden whose sympathetic heart causes her to be stripped of her godhood in one of Wagner's noblest, most poignant scenes at the end of the opera. Indeed, Acts I and III are so primal, so powerful and so popular that audiences have cheerfully overlooked the tedium of the second act in order to revel in the Ride of the Valkyries and the Magic Fire Music. As George...
...heroic pizazz, a crucible vs. a crowd pleaser. A low, labyrinthine, long-abandoned Government compound and a high, bright, popular symbol. The place where the undesirables among the huddled masses were culled out and sent packing; the monument that summarizes in one grand, gilded-age stroke a nation's noblest intentions. The two islands make a compelling yin- and-yankee pair. Alone, neither the Mother of Exiles nor the Island of Tears fairly represents the American story. But together, they tell something like the whole truth...
...dilemmas; it is not the occasion for lavish and indiscriminate bestowing of moral awards. A true conservative mind devoted to careful thought and pensive reflection would not offer such rash laud as did the President. No doubt, war has throughout history inspired in many individuals some of the noblest of moral traits: courage, loyalty, valor, honor, selflessness. These are not the traits embodied by the Contras, an outfit supported not only by the United States but by cocaine smuggling as well...
...with the noblest ideals that we coughed in your face not yet three inches ago. Did we say noble? Noble doesn't quite capture it. Honorable, glorious, mensch-like. Now we're getting there. But you get the idea...
...Master of Ceremonies "Sidewalk Sam" Guillemin explained, "The spoken word has a living quality, particularly in the middle of the park, in the middle of the day." Instead of hearing poetry in the public parks, "we often hear harangues in those areas that should be the arenas for the noblest expression." "Poetry in the Park" is one attempt by the Sidewalk poets to set this trend aright...