Word: throned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both Princeton and B.U., which had been making their annual claims to the 'Cliffe's eastern rowing throne, were silenced after 30 strokes when Radcliffe jumped to an early lead...
...assassination and that Johnson provided it in what was his finest hour. Reaching the presidency on that grim November day was no joy to Johnson, as he explained: "For millions of Americans, I was still illegitimate, a naked man with no presidential covering, a pretender to the throne. And then there was Texas, my home, the home of both the murder and the murder of the murderer. And then there were the bigots and the dividers and the Eastern intellectuals who were waiting to knock me down before I could even begin to stand up. The whole thing was almost...
...most of them have been performed either by U.S. regional opera companies or on television. A lurid tale of murder, intrigue and frustrated love, Ines de Castro builds to a climax in which the demented hero Dom Pedro places the cadaver of his true love Ines on the throne and declares her queen. Stage Director Tito Capobianco has conceived a stunning production that conveys most of the libretto's horror. What is called for musically is the power and sweep of a Verdi, or the psychological insight of a Moussorgsky. Pasatieri Instead has written in a bland, old-fashioned...
Head Coach Jack Barnaby was bed-ridden with the flu, but David Fish, heir to the Racquet Czar's throne, was at the controls for the derailment of the Engineers and termed the whole affair, "a very untaxing match." The real season begins this weekend when the squad travels to Pennsylvania on Friday and Columbia on Saturday to face two talented Ivy League squads...
Today's taste tends toward 19th century folk art represented by some delectable objects in the Whitney. The most splendid "unofficial" sculpture is a veritable New Jerusalem of junk and old furniture sheathed in gold and silver foil, the Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly, begun in 1950 in a Washington garage by a black janitor named James Hampton, and left unfinished on his death in 1964. It was meant for Christ at his Second Coming and may well be the finest work of visionary religious art produced by an American...