Word: staling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Franklin's Kite. The 17th century is the great divide, as Steiner sees it. After that, tragedy is doomed by a triple decadence-the decline of the word, the myth, and the audience. Verse succumbed to prose, and prose itself, Steiner feels, is now debased, stale and lackluster. Both the Greek myths and Christian values were ravaged by rationalism. In tragedy, "lightning is a messenger. But it can no longer be so once Benjamin Franklin has flown a kite to it." The audience changed most of all. The rising middle class was not interested in the fall of princes...
...driving, primitive strength saves it just as the chorus's menacing force did the performance last night. Long 9/8 measures contrast with abrupt triplets to overshadow with a barbaric grandeur the occasional lapses of style. Forbes even took the chorus too far in this direction, for after a rather stale opening the melodic line became jerky; but this flaw disappeared when the chorus greeted Creon and Tiresias with excellent dynamic control and superb forcefulness...
...building between the house and Senate wings remained the same for every inaugural (except Taft's indoor ceremony) from Jackson to Eisenhower. But it did not wear well. The walls and columns, cut from a Virginia sandstone quarry owned by George Washington, crumbled in many places like stale cake...
...hard tasks. His father, a barber who tried to run a dance hall in Easton, Wash., was so poor that when the family house burned down, he moved his wife and two children into tents. "I stole coal from Northern Pacific railroad cars, and we ate plenty of stale bread with that old purple mold coming through," recalls Egbert. He went to Washington State on an athletic scholarship (state discus-throw record in 1937), but dropped out to work on the Grand Coulee Dam to support his family...
Bede's graduate himself. "It has been found that an older man can work hard for a short time, whereas if he had to face a longer period of study, he would become stale and discouraged...