Word: sirening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prince waltzes with her, he smiles wistfully. He has done his duty, he has built a bridge to the future. His children will cross it, he will not. He will stay in the past, bound there by affection, by habit, by sloth, by congenital dislike of tomorrow, by the siren lure of a torrid, torpid land that makes its children long "voluptuously for death." As the film ends he kneels and, yearning upward to the morning star, prays passionately for death: "O faithful star! When will you give me an appointment less ephemeral than this...
Sweat & Showmanship. Behind his dark glasses and glittering arsenal of horns, goateed Kirk sweats aplenty, with instinctive showmanship and passion. When the steam is up, he is likely to blow a shrill Tarzan victory call on a siren-whistle that could be mistaken for a hunting horn. He delights in the unexpected. In the middle of a flute solo, he will pop a child's plastic song flute into his right nostril and trill out a brief duet. For a performer who took up the flute only three years ago, Kirk plays it with astonishing virtuosity. He can begin...
...President had warm talks with Italy's Prime Minister and President, and told leading Italians at a formal dinner: "The siren temptations of those with the seemingly swift and easy answers on the far right and far left will always be great. But I am convinced that Italy and the United States will draw even more closely together...
Auto engineers who dream of finding a replacement for the complicated, churning piston engine have long looked wistfully at the gas-turbine engine that introduced the jet age. The turbine-with its screeching siren noise, high fuel consumption, slow acceleration and searing exhaust gases-now dominates the jet field, but is still far out when it comes to autos. After 14 years of experimenting and several premature publicity outbursts on the subject, Chrysler Corp. is now confident that it has tamed the gas turbine...
...riot began when a small group of students sounded aloud siren and played on a bugle and bagpipes. Other undergraduates streamed out of their dorms, seizing toilet paper to throw about the campus; several student set off fire works...