Word: vigilancy
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...Downs estate, and there the two founded the Glyndebourne Festival, the home of some of the finest Mozart performances heard anywhere. When World War II interrupted that idyl, Bing took a job as a coupon clerk in a London department store (Peter Jones in Sloane Square), stood nightly rooftop vigil as a volunteer fire warden. Eventually, he worked himself up to division manager, "hating every minute of it" except for his rounds to the store's hairdressing salon, where, he recalls dryly, "the atmosphere of hysteria reminded me of opera...
...Illia moved into his brother's house in a Buenos Aires suburb and watched over his ailing wife, Sylvia, 46, who recently returned from the U.S., where she had been treated for cancer. Occasionally, he would break the bedside vigil to receive some of his old friends and former ministers, with whom he talked for hours about what might have been...
...greeted outside the church by anti-Viet Nam pickets. Inside though, there were no Republicans or Democrats, no hawks or doves, no Northerners or Southerners-only guests at a solemn ceremony. No TV or radio was allowed within, but millions of people throughout the U.S. kept a sort of vigil while the couple knelt inside the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, under the gaze of a huge mosaic of a stern Christ in red robes, and vowed to each other: With this ring I marry you and pledge to you my ever faithful love...
...carefree clutter of books and clothes, the cherished mementos of lost childhood, beginning career and burgeoning romance marked it inimitably as a young women's dormitory. Around the two-story apartment on Chicago's far South Side, Teddy bears stood button-eyed vigil over dressers festooned with framed pictures of parents and boy friends. Among the souvenirs of tender evenings past was a long-empty champagne bottle. In the three upstairs bedrooms lined with bunks, the closets were crammed with party dresses. In one bedroom, a postcard was fondly pinned to a notice board: "Some day before...
Outside Carnegie Hall, the long vigil for tickets begins. Some wait in line for 48 hours in the rain for the privilege of buying standing room. Moments before the concert begins, Horowitz, tight as a high wire, reaches out to an usher. "Listen," he says, "you're young and healthy. Give me your hands to warm my fingers." "When I felt his hands," Horowitz recalls later, "I drew mine back quickly. Mine were cold, but his were really icy. He was more nervous than I. Everybody was nervous...