Word: ridere
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...Germany?which now provides 42% of the budget for the financially pressed W.C.C.?official protests are muted, but one top churchman reports "bitter reaction in our churches." At the recent meeting of the world's Anglican bishops, a routine W.C.C. support motion got through only with an antiviolence rider attached. In the U.S., important elements in such W.C.C. member groups as the United Methodist Church, the United Church of Christ and the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese are upset...
...from a dozen countries who had gone to Lexington's new $35 million Horse Park for the quadrennial Three-Day World Championships, an equestrian event being held in the U.S. for the first time. More important, perhaps, Davidson faced one of the toughest courses ever devised for horse and rider. With roots going back to the bloody cavalry charges and elegant military tattoos of the 18th century, three-day eventing tests the full range of a mount's abilities, from deft, close-quarter maneuvers to a cross-country marathon and stadium jumping...
...rider since he was six, Davidson was as prepared as talent, diligence?and money?could make him. He and his wife Carol, the daughter of a wealthy Pennsylvania landowner, own a 109-acre farm near Unionville, Pa. When they were married in 1974, Davidson and his bride took their horses to England on their honeymoon and entered events there...
There was a time lag between the two cities-inevitably, given the state of communications before World War I and the lack of traveling shows. That it was no longer was largely due to artists' organizations in Germany, chiefly the Blue Rider group, a large and amorphous body of painters, sculptors and writers started in Munich by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc. Directness of expression, unmediated purity of color and a faith in what Kandinsky called the "inner necessity": these were the watchwords, and what they helped produce-as in Alexej Jawlensky's Young Girl with Peonies...
When he signed his first recording contract in the '20s, Thomas ("Fats") Waller demanded an unusual rider: there had to be a fresh bottle of gin on his piano when he arrived in the morning and another to take home when he left in the afternoon. But then there was nothing usual about Fats. "He was a man of gargantuan appetites and talent," says Murray Horwitz, Ain't Misbehavin's associate director. "He was 100%. When he was with you, he didn't hold anything back. Everything he had was yours, his heart and whatever else...