Word: stanzas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early in the third stanza, Saybrook showed its last remnants of life. Aided by a pair of penalties, they marched 45 yards to the Harvard 30 with halfback Pete Becket leading the drive. But Eliot recovered a fumble on the 30, and on the next play Wood dashed 57 yards to the Saybrook 12; three plays later he went up the middle to make the score...
...been no "overt incidents" since the decision that could be interpreted as the beginning of a wave of antiSemitism. ∙∙∙ To get around the Supreme Court's prayer ruling, the school board in Hicksville, L.I., recently proposed that classes begin with a reading of the fourth stanza of The Star-Spangled Banner, which has the line And this be our motto, "In God is our trust." Last week New York State Education Commissioner James Allen...
made a tortured decision that schools could read, recite or sing the stanza-but only if they did not mean it as a prescribed, official prayer...
...announced that Bible reading would continue in classes; a school district in Colonie, N.Y., decided to substitute a short period of silence for optional contemplation in place of the banned regents' prayer. In Hicksville, L.I., the board of education has approved the recitation of the rarely sung fourth stanza of The Star-Spangled Banner-"Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just; And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust' "as a daily prayer...
Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire," written around 1910 for speaking voice and chamber orchestra, is based on a collection of poems by Alfred Giraud. The mood of the poetry is fantasy (one stanza reads: "As a pallid drop of blood Tints the lips of one in sickness,/ So inherently this music/Tempts destruction of the self"). There can be no doubt that the music is cast in the same vein as the poetry. It is modern composition at its harshest, its most discordant, its most trenchant...