Word: rare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the presence within the English Department of a variety of critical methods, the courses are organized, with extremely rare exceptions, on an historical basis. Since the essences of a work of literature is not only that it "belongs" to its historical background, it seems illogical to plan courses only on this basis...
...Republicans discussed ways and means of moving onto the offensive. "I don't think we can win with a campaign of denials." said Aiken. The President agreed. So did every other Republican in the room -and that in itself was a rare thing...
...Metropolitan Opera was still clearly enemy territory, but flashy, highstrung Diva Maria Callas found somewhere to sing in Manhattan anyway. Delighted to have Maria under its wing, the imaginative American Opera Society, which specializes in concert versions of rare items, agreed to bring forth at Carnegie Hall a fine old showcase for her fiery talents (Bellini's Il Pirata), allowed Maria to bring along her own conductor, tenor, baritone. Success was assured. The stiff prices ($33 top) fazed few of her fans, who applauded the Callasthenics lustily, ahed her mad scene, stopped cheering only when a stagehand doused...
Unarmed in Paradise is written with rare grace and honesty. It is one of the best love stories to come along in many a year...
Once an assistant editor of Architectural Review, Betjeman has a rare knowledge and love of English places that is even more famed in Britain than his poetry. To keep his island from becoming "a right little, tight little clinic," he is constantly embroiled in some passionate public campaign -to subdue TV aerials, to save ancient towing canals or musty little churches. He writes glowing guidebooks, and he has so cleaned up the despised name of Victorian Gothic architecture that some of his readers are able to look even on London's Stygian train terminals with a kindly...