Word: oblivion
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...period before Bach was long the Atlantis of musical history: an entire realm sunk into oblivion, remembered only in legend. The poets, painters and architects of the time-roughly the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance-had been gloriously gifted; it stood to reason that the musicians had been too. Yet there was scant record of what their work sounded like. The scores that survived were in archaic, sometimes cryptic notation. The original instruments-for instance, the sackbut, a precursor of the trombone, and the shawm, a sort of oboe with a cold-often were found only among museum relics...
...Blown to oblivion is the traditional budgetary restriction of paying no more than one-quarter of pretax income for rent. Apartment dwellers are writing checks for as much as 50% of their gross salaries each month and enduring a straitened life-style for everything else: food, clothing, doctor bills, vacations and savings accounts...
When Marcos first seized power in 1972, most of the Catholic clergy went along with him, as the country seemed to be sliding into anarchy and economic oblivion. A few of the more liberal clergy protested--the government raided a small number of convents and seminaries and shut down some members of the Catholic media. Jaime Cardinal Sin, head of Manila archdiocese and leader of the Filipino church, the papal Nuncio, and most others in the Catholic hierarchy, however, saw Marcos offering a much needed purgative and they issued declarations in his favor. Gradually, though, as a result...
...gauche to drink beer and watch football with your undershirt on, junk food for the intellectual cynic. If read slowly, selectively, this compendium of facetiae should beat just about any conceivable true-to-life rehashes of the grey cripple of a decade that will limp (or roll) off to oblivion in just one more month...
...Democrats meeting in Cincinnati in 1856 gave a polite bow to Pierce and put his name on the first ballot, but even then James Buchanan got more votes By the 17th ballot Franklin Pierce had drifted into oblivion and the nomination went to Buchanan, a Pennsylvania bachelor who turned out to be not much of an improvement. But he did start his presidency with a proper celebration at which were consumed 400 gallons of oysters, 60 saddles of mutton, 125 tongues, a cake four feet high and $3,000 worth of wine...