Word: oded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Property of Jesus" is the most overtly religious track on the album. It is also fascinating and passionate, and like most good Dylan, multi-level. At first we seem to be hearing an ode to the unashamed believers who preach their love for Jesus, and an attack on atheists...
Foot's newest book, his eleventh, reflects that very amplitude of intellectual riches and experience. Debts of Honour is Foot's ode to his political and literary heroes, in 14 fond chapter-biographies. Those idols range from Benjamin Disraeli and Thomas Paine to the Duchess of Marlborough and Jonathan Swift, His heroes usually share one trait: a determined foresight. As he writes in his profile of Disraeli, "the good Tory": "If anything is really to be done in the world, it must be done by visionaries; men who see the future, and make the future because they...
...Ode to Henry's Wives...
...with classics, the company has unveiled many new ballets, chiefly by Ashton and current Principal Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan, 51. On this trip the Royal brought three works new to U.S. audiences: Ashton's Rhapsody, a glittering display originally created for Mikhail Baryshnikov; MacMillan's Gloria, a dark ode to the generation killed in the Great War, set to the bright strains of Poulenc; and Isadora, also by MacMillan, a tasteless, breast-baring melodrama about Modern Dance Pioneer Isadora Duncan, with a pastiche score by Richard Rodney Bennett. In addition, the Royal performed, for the first time...
...great, incomparable, and never-to-be-surpassed Crimson! What have you done? What have you not done? What will you do? You are a microcosm of the universe.... --from "Ode to The Crimson" circa...