Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the battle for coeducation is pretty much won, vestiges of all-male days remain to haunt campus feminists. One example: the unabashedly male-chauvinist wording of Penn State's Alma Mater. The anthem's phrase "Thou didst mold us, dear old State," recently lost its refrain "Into men, into men." "When we stood at boyhood's gate" emerged unisexually as "childhood's gate." Elsewhere, however, sexism yet sounds hi full voice. At Princeton football games, for example, "her sons" still give "three cheers for Old Nassau." Princeton Recording Secretary Fred Fox says that if "sons...
...unsentimental romanticist, Solti works easily within the huge design of the Eroica. He treats the long first movement almost as an extended phrase. If he lacks something of the rhythmic intensity of Toscanini, Solti nevertheless fuses the conflicting elements of the symphony into a coherent whole with no sacrifice of tonal beauty. The sad serenity of the adagio of the Ninth Symphony surges to the famed choral movement with stunning emotional impact. Partisans will want to stick with some of the classic interpretations: Toscanini's Seventh, for instance, or the Erich Kleiber/Amsterdam Concertgebouw Fifth. But for consistent clarity, warmth...
THIRD PARADOX: Barry Lyndon is obviously a costume drama but in a much more literal sense than any movie easily dismissed by that contemptuous phrase. Many of the clothes are not costumes at all but authentic antiques. The equally real interiors arid landscapes-every foot of the film was shot on location -are intended to function as something more than exotic delights for the eye. Close scrutiny of the settings reveals not only the character of the people who inhabit them but the spirit of the entire age as Kubrick understands...
When all the flight was safely aloft, the 1,047-ft. Kennedy got ready to position herself for the landing operation - "to seek the wind," in the Navy's phrase. All was well. There was nothing difficult about the maneuver; it had been performed thousands of times by units of the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. The job of the six much smaller ships shepherding the Kennedy was to change position to accomodate the movements of the attack carrier. The Kennedy radioed her planned change of course to the U.S.S. Belknap, a 7,930-ton guided-missile cruiser...
Back in 1909, Jewish Immigrant Israel Zangwill had an idea whose time had come. Zangwill wrote a play about American immigrants and called it The Melting Pot. It ran for months on Broadway, and the phrase entered the language as an expression of faith in American homogeneity. That faith lasted until the 1960s, when blacks first challenged its homey apple-pie vision and prepared the way for a similar awakening among other ethnic groups...