Word: vow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rebellious, difficult child. When he was sent to school, the teacher asked him to spell "a." He couldn't, and the other children laughed. "I swore I wouldn't learn to read and write, they wouldn't make me." Obstinately, he stuck to that vow, left school at 14 without having learned to read a sentence. He got odd jobs as milkman, baker, house painter, hospital orderly. "Sometime I quit, sometimes they sacked me. I just couldn't get interested. I didn't care. An' I was always gettin' into mischief, always fightin...
...second half of the opera, the symbolism gets thicker: Columbus' shadow and conscience appear. At one point, Columbus I and II (a baritone and a basso, respectively) clasp each other and vow to be together in death, and the finale finds a general movement towards paradise as the dove appears in radiant glory while angels (and everybody else) sing a deafening "Hallelujah...
...dark lady was a married woman who broke her bed vow (Sormet 152), but Mary Fitton was single when she was William Herbert's [later the Earl of Pembroke-1580-1630] mistress ... He refused to wed her . . . After bearing three illegitimate children to three different men, she married rich and died respectable. But-alas for the supporters of the Fitton-Herbert theory-Mary inconveniently turns out, from the evidence of her portraits, to have been not dark but fair, with light brown hair and gray eyes. For hair, Shakespeare's dark lady had "black wires"; for eyes, "pitch...
...Next night came the company's first Norma in nine years. Written in 1831, Norma was one of the last of the bel canto operas, designed chiefly for vocal acrobatics. The scene is Gaul of the Druids' day. Norma is a high priestess who has broken her vow of chastity and borne the Roman proconsul two children, only to find that he really loves a younger priestess. Much of the melody is limp as a drink of water and the harmonies have the simple severity of Stonehenge, but fastidious fans love...
...teacher, chaplain and headmaster at Stonyhurst, a Jesuit school for boys. Though he is almost painfully reserved, Father Belton seems to have no qualms about his new role as head of his order's most active newsmaker. He accepts it as one more opportunity to fulfill his vow of obedience...