Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Evil in Purple. What a sell-out audience saw when the curtain finally went up on Salome last week, they would not soon forget. From the pit (which Reiner had ordered lowered to its bottom notch so he and the huge, augmented orchestra could try to keep out of sight), they heard the power, brilliance and detail of Strauss's music as they had seldom heard it before. Onstage, they saw an incandescently evil Salome, flashing in green, purple and red, who commanded the performance from beginning to end. Soprano Welitsch had critics reaching back for comparisons to Olive...
...Eimi (pronounced ay-me-"I am," in Greek) has become slightly more familiar; it offers no real trouble to an attentive reader, and on occasion adds to the sense of immediacy. On the other hand, Cummings' point of view, his simple reliance on what he himself felt, saw and heard, is rarer than ever-at least among travelers permitted to make the same trip nowadays...
Henry VIII could never have carried out such acts if there had not been a movement against Rome among his people: it was led by men willing to fight papacy and Church for the freedom to read and interpret the Bible as they saw fit. Henry never countenanced such radicals, and he burned some as heretics during his reign. To Henry, that was just good sense...
...holiday was later saved from obscurity by romantic poets of the Renaissance. Recalling the practice of Roman bachelors of picking their dates for the day by drawing the names of maidens out of an urn, the poets somehow saw an excuse to deliver lace-splattered declarations to the lovers...
...custom found its way to England, where the versatile William Shakespeare saw fit to burlesque it. From the lips of the mad Ophelia in Hamlet, Act IV, Scene v, comes probably both the funniest and most ribald Valentine messaged over cooed...