Word: portents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...July hearings on U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic, Senator J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, announced that no formal report would be issued. Last week, in a two-hour Senate speech, Fulbright delivered his own delayed opinion-a scalding denunciation of the intervention and its portent for U.S. policy in general. Fulbright's erratic attacks on the Administration are no longer surprising. What made this one particularly curious was the fact that, on White House orders, he had access to every scrap of information in the files-but apparently based his conclusions more heavily...
...portent was fulfilled in a blaze of genius for which the bird of the sun is no intemperate metaphor. For seven centuries La Commedia, which in 14,233 lines of lordly language describes the poet's descent into hell and ascent into heaven through the refining fires of purgatory, has been widely considered the greatest poem ever composed; and its author has been virtually deified by the critics. T. S. Eliot pronounced him "the most universal of poets in the modern languages," and added: "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion; Dante the greatest altitude and greatest depth...
Next Saturday the Crimson faces Yale in what will be largely an exhibition meet for the Yalies. One ominous portent was Yale's 72-22 victory over Princeton, a team that beat Harvard 65-30 the previous week...
Saturday's game will not count in the official season standings, so the loss was not serious. One portent of things to come, however, is that Brown beat St. Nicholas a week ago by a 4-2 score. To be consid- ered a contender for the Ivy League title, the Crimson will have to come up with a much more potent offense...
...opening violin cadenza examines every element of the music that follows, preparing the way for a series of studies and variations on the tone-row. The orchestra is enriched by seven percussionists, and the drums, together with unique orchestral colors, create an Aztec mood of sadness, excitement and portent...