Word: skylarking
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...Price of admission; big, easy and beautifully controlled, it was as opulent in the upper as the lower registers, and it negotiated the distance between them with liquid ease. It never strained. Her muted trills alone were enough to justify the Italian critic who was reminded of "a skylark under bewitchment." When she completed the Act IV aria, D'amor sull'ali rosee, she received the kind of ovation that at the Met signifies unconditional surrender...
...when the U.S. National Institute of Arts and Letters gave Hodgson a $1,000 prize, and again in 1954, when Britain's Queen Elizabeth awarded him the Gold Medal for Poetry. Why Hodgson? In London last month came the best answer: a 96-page book entitled The Skylark and Other Poems. It was the second major book published by forgotten Poet Hodgson, 87, in a long life of deeper privacy than most poets ever dream of. Strangest part of his story: for 19 years Poet Hodgson has lived in the U.S. in a shabby farmhouse on the side...
...seen since Dotheboys Hall. By confession and the cane, the clerical masters rule a cowed proletariat of boys and a middle class of lay masters. Dev may hand out "nippers" (cane on the hand) to his boys when they muck up a stanza from Shelley's To a Skylark or cannot explain the meaning of the Feast of Lupercal (a Roman fertility rite*), but he walks in fear of Father Alphonsus McSwiney, Dean of Discipline, a clerical careerist and bully whose belief it is that "no boy [is] stouter than a good cane" and that a man is, after...
CONVAIR GOLDEN ARROW jet transport will go into production with initial orders for 40 planes totaling $200 million. Trans World Airlines will buy 30, Delta Airlines will take another ten of the four-jet, medium-range (3,000 miles) airliner. Originally named Skylark (TIME, April 23), new jetliner will cruise at 600 m.p.h. (slightly faster than bigger Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8) with 80 passengers, go into service late...
JUNIOR JETLINERS will touch off a hot new sales race among planemakers. After Convair's announcement of its 600 m.p.h. Skylark (TIME, March 12), both Boeing (with a scaled-down 707) and Douglas (with a DC-9) are planning to build jetliners to carry 50 to 90 passengers on hops as short as 300 miles. Estimated price: around $3,000,000 per plane, or some $1,500,000 cheaper than the long-range jets already on order...