Word: sebastians
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...Johann Sebastian Bach seemed to have no understanding of his own greatness. Year after year, he turned out his glorious cantatas and Passions like a baker hurrying over the breakfast rolls. He considered the music that flowed from his pen for 50 years to be a collection of testimonials to honest craftsmanship-some of it better than others, but all of it composed, as he humbly wrote in the dedication of the Musical Offering, "as well as I possibly could...
...very first hole, a 456-yd. par five, Nicklaus reached the green with a drive and a No. 8 iron, and sank his putt for an eagle. But after three days, the best that Jack and Arnie could manage was a first-place tie with Spain's Sebastian Miguel and Ramon Sota. Nicklaus was spraying his approaches, and Palmer's putting was, in his own word, "terrible." Grunted Nicklaus: "The prestige of Uncle Sam is at stake...
...first few weeks of their month-long vacation near the Spanish seaside resort of San Sebastian, Belgium's royal couple carried on like any vacationers. Then Queen Fabiola, 35, suddenly disappeared from view. Callers were politely turned away. King Baudouin showed up stag at parties. Last week the tidings leaked out. The Queen is expecting her first child. And with a history of two miscarriages, her physicians were taking no chances, ordered her to refrain from all activities and spend most of her time...
...enemies were exploding anew in the streets of Spanish cities. There were blasts outside newspaper offices in Madrid and Barcelona; the increasing boldness of the regime's opposition was amply illustrated when another explosion shattered the windows of Franco's summer palace on the outskirts of San Sebastian. To the relief of the police. El Caudillo was off on a fishing trip at the time...
...phenomenal 1,700,000 disks. It has been recorded in Flemish, Spanish, German and Italian, and in 42 different versions. It has been done à la New Orleans, in cha cha cha rhythm and as a twist, as a military march and in a stately imitation of Johann Sebastian Bach. Frank Sinatra sang it in French at a Cap-Martin nightclub, and an English songwriter is at work on English lyrics. In all styles, and in any language, Moonlight at Maubeuge...