Word: singed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hark ! The herald angels sing "Bultmann is the latest thing." At least, they would if he had not Demythologized...
...Aviv, 20 minutes away to the west. At Kalkilya shells rained both on the fort and the town, killing a nursing infant, his brother, an old woman. By 4:20 the Israelis finally pulled out. This time when they crossed the border they did not cheer or sing their mambo tunes...
...candid letter to the London Daily Express, which recently ran a music column headed "Is Bing Crosby Going Out -or Has He Gone?," the Old (52) Groaner groaned: "I'm 'long gone.' I just don't sing as well as I used to ... The feel for a song isn't there, the desire to sing, to be in action-and when this is absent, so is the style." Modest Millionaire Crosby was not upset by prospects of oblivion. "Honestly, I think I've stretched a talent which is so thin that...
Self-approving behavior comes naturally to 37-year-old Basso Christoff. The King of Bulgaria heard him sing 14 years ago and told him that it would redound to the glory of Bulgaria if he were to become famous as a singer throughout the world. To see that he did, the King gave the young man a royal scholarship, sent him to Italy for study and experience. Christoff fled to Salzburg when the Germans occupied Italy ("not wanting to get in any kind of a war"), later returned and applied for Italian citizenship and married an Italian girl...
...when Boris began to sing, it was another matter. His voice was strong, resonant and of uncanny clarity. He began his long prayer deliberately, never let his voice reach its maximum power (he saved that for his death scene), indulged in no gasps or sobs, nevertheless developed a painful pitch of feeling as he reached the nadir, almost whispering "Gospodi!" ("Oh my God!"). Not a handclap broke the hushed silence when he finished. Christoff's Boris is no lunatic, but a sensitive, conscience-stricken man whose terror at his infanticide finally cracks his sanity. The audience loved...