Word: oded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Graduate Chorale. Purcell: Birthday Ode for Queen Mary; Brahms: Zigeunerlieder; Yannatos: Three Settings of e.e. cummings. Tickets: $1. Friday...
...strong-bodied assistant whose thin, darkish face showed him to be a resident of the town. The Catholic priest was white, a Maryknoll missionary who had lived in the village for almost 10 years. From a small speaker on the wall an organ version of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" was playing. As the padre walked to the modest altar, his assistant passed out to the peasants sheets with prayers written in Quechua. This service was for those who spoke only that Indian tongue; in the previous hour the padre had said mass for the Spanish-speaking inhabitants...
...Home. Result: a coup running over with homilies. Bloviating through 77 years of memories, Sam Ervin laces his bourbon with saccharin and recites his favorite lyrics-Grow Tall My Son and Through the Years. Moving to sterner stuff (our national anthem, the First Amendment and Rudyard Kipling's ode to the governing class: "If you can keep your head when all about you/ Are losing theirs"), Uncle Sam then opines that the King James Bible is the best "road map to travel by through this world." Finally he pays tribute to his wife Margaret, declaring...
...nose? The more the senses can be used indifferently for each other, the more our understandings would be enlarged. A rose, jassamine, a pink, a jonquil and a honeysuckle might signify the vowels, the consonants to be represented by other flowers. How charming it would be to smell an ode from a nosegay...
...made one mistake." Walker, after all, was a bad boy; he had always frightened teachers and young girls, and he had made too many mistakes on the order of assault and battery and burglary. They didn't read "To an Athlete Dying Young" at his funeral, the ode that is so customary at funerals for 20-year-olds, athletes or not. No, they concluded, this was the only way it could have ended...