Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sound and light shows go, it was a stunner. This time the ageless Pyramids of Giza were bathed in Sinatra as well as lumière. Ol' Blue Eyes, accompanied by Wife Barbara, appeared in Cairo for the first time as part of a three-day bash to raise funds for Wafa Wal Amal, the rehabilitation center for the handicapped that is First Lady Jehan Sadat's favorite charity. Jehan and Barbara struck it off famously, but Sinatra kept mostly to himself until showtime. By then the sand near the Pyramids had been covered with 300 carpets...
...suddenly united with the most unruly, the most outrageously alive part of yourself," he records in the first-person narrative, "this state of piercing consciousness did not subside in me, as I've learned it does in others, after a time. If my mind could have made a sound, it would have burst a row of wineglasses. I saw coincidences everywhere; meanings darted and danced like overheated molecules." Spencer's tensely energetic prose catches perfectly the lyricism and bombast of single-minded passion. It also registers some sweet and extraordinarily complicated moments involving David and his parents, stolid...
...Lincoln-Douglas debates. Remember them? They were about secession...and slavery...and union...and--you know--all those Civil War topics. From the tri-colored jumble that dominates the stage to periodic bursts of off-pitch folk singing, The Rivalry shrieks Americana. It is not a pleasant sound...
Last week, the House of Representatives approved legislation establishing a separate Department of Education, virtually guaranteeing the birth of the 13th Cabinet department. While the new department may sound like a radical innovation, all it really does is move the Office of Education from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) into its own private home...
They added, however, that Carter's renewed call for ratification was politically sound...