Word: ringe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Astronomers and archaeologists have long speculated that Stonehenge, a ring-like structure of tremendous stones built in southern England more than 4000 years ago, may have been a pre-historic astronomic research tool...
Inside the ring of the guardsmen, a few Boston police patrol the Common, wondering at the transformation of the beat they walk each night. One has been gone for four months, off work with a stroke. The altar pleases him; the thought that demonstrators may march on the Common scares him. Graying on the sides like middle-aged cops are supposed to, he worries about the day ahead. "One little thing can set people off," he explains. "You gotta nip it just before it gets out of hand." Another cop, just as Irish as the first, lists the kinds...
...great, demonic, prescient, overwhelming personality disappeared like the great Emperor Qin Shihuang-di (Ch'in Shih Huang-ti), with whom he often compared himself while dreading the oblivion which was his fate. And his words to Nixon, like so much of what he said and attempted, had the ring of prophecy: "I have only been able to change a few places in the vicinity of Peking...
This production is no substitute for a full-scale, operatic Ring, and that seems obvious both to Sellars and to audiences from the start. The suggestion of a critic in the Boston Phoenix--reviewing the same Ring production this summer--that international opera stars participate in Sellars' version of the cycle is beyond understanding...
...there is a need for this sort of Ring. If only to remind audiences that Wagner need not sink from the weight of his pomposity, that there can be levity as well as profundity in these mythological epics, Sellars has performed a valuable service. Most modern Rings either slavishly follow Wagner's "intentions"--as though he knew what they were himself--or unmoor themselves entirely from his ideas and drift into meaninglessness. Not quite dismissing Wagner, but not quite taking him seriously, this Ring is above all refreshing...