Word: ode
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...while back, when the Senate overrode Ford's veto of a bill to expand school breakfast and lunch programs. Maryland's wry Charles Mathias Jr., a bona fide liberal, took the floor to support the override and also sound a warning in the form of an ode to the old brown...
...copy of her at Monticello. Not having been to Florence, he had never seen the original, which he knew through engravings and plasters. It is pleasant to see the Towneley Vase, that once renowned Attic mar ble of the 1st century A.D. on which Keats based several lines of Ode to a Grecian Urn. But Jefferson never saw it, and (as the catalogue admits) would probably have disliked the "licentious mysticism" of its Bacchic figures...
...which has recirculated the Beatles' hits to drumbeats of publicity. Pop-music radio stations have been barraged with "presentation boxes" of Beatles singles, and browsers in record stores are greeted at every turn with Beatles counter displays. The most successful single is the Beatles' 1968 ode to the restorative powers of love, Hey Jude (in twelfth place), followed by Yesterday (18) and Get Back (32). The resurrection of the Beatles speaks partly of the whimsical nature of the British pop market. But it also reminds that the Beatles' eloquent melodies, pungent lyrics and ingenious instrumental arrangements remain...
...musical proficiency of the cast is unexceptional, so is most of LaZebnik's score. LaZebnik is a better lyricist than composer, but even some of his lyrics--like the blackly humorous "Happy When" a nostalgic ode to murderous wives--are not particularly inspired. Among the show's best numbers are Lear's quizzical lament, "Where is Cordelia?" expertly delivered by Stephen Morris, and the finale, "So What If Hope is Gone," which suggests a way of coping with unhappy endings...
...events including track, rowing, shooting, martial arts and chess. During the opening ceremonies at the 80,000-seat Workers' Stadium, the Chinese practiced their flash-card magic; more than 8,000 people were pressed into service to flash poster-size cards. The result of this collective enterprise: "Ode to the Red Flag," a kaleidoscope of socialist realism scenes, beginning with the message...