Word: pit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foot escarpment. She learned. She discovered Ada was right, and paid the price. She ended up face down in a ravine at sunset, belly aching and self broken open and bleeding red and sweet like a pomegranate. When Merilee crashed at the bottom of a nameless and uncharted pit, she was too gone to be afraid of the snakes and scorpions who came to view her Gulliverian hugeness, too exhausted to make it to the next ridge and the twilight blue beyond it. Little girls with broken hearts would make the bravest soldiers. Beyond the loss of hope there...
...Panthers believe that the state of Connecticut is going to try to execute Bobby Seale. An execution would be consistent with the Panther's experience with fascism. No white can pit anything against this prediction but a naive residue of faith in the government. Seale's death in the electric chair would have a significance that is hardly imaginable. David Hilliard told a crowd in Storrs, Connecticut last week that it would spark an armed black revolution, and there is little reason to doubt...
...many passages now resound with a fresh, rolling cadence even more understandable than the R.S.V. or Jerusalem Bible. In the King James Version of Daniel, for instance, the fate of the wicked was almost lost in Elizabethan prose: when King Darius pulls the unharmed Daniel from the lions' pit and throws in Daniel's accusers instead, the King James Version reports dryly: "The lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den." The N.E.B. version: "Before they reached the floor of the pit...
...exactly say that the Loeb is the best place to hear them. While they are exquisitely rendered by John Miner's pit band below the main stage, the performers on the stage usually render them inaudibly or off-pitch or without style. And the production that surrounds the music is, far too often, more dead than alive...
...Beverly Sills, who also has never sung at the Met -and should-Marilyn Horne has been hailed in concerts and operas everywhere else. She also put in three years singing in provincial opera houses in Germany, an apprenticeship that left her able to cope with anything-including an orchestra pit so low that she lost a few bars because she could not see the conductor's baton. Subsequent triumphs at the San Francisco and Chicago Lyric Operas, Covent Garden and La Scala were proof of her versatility. In 1960, back in the U.S., she married Henry Lewis, a young...