Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This reaction to Lewis' song stressed his belief that affection, although mute in modern poetry, is not dead in man. "The simple wish to be alive is the inarticulate man's hope and the poet's Iyric impulse," he said...
...Debussy's Nocturnes closed the program. They are excellent Debussy, but the omitted third, "Sirenes," is unparalleled in all of musical literature for sheer sensuality. Perhaps Yannatos had to cut it because of the length of the program; in that case, I wish he had waited until the next concert, and performed all three then...
...fellows are selected on the basis of outstanding scholarly promise. They may pursue whatever studies they wish, and are free from all academic regulations for degrees. Each man receives a stipend of between $3500 and $5500 a year...
East of Calais, Drake closed in for the kill. "I dout it not," he wrote to Lord Charles Howard, his commander in chief, "but ere it be long so to handle the matere with the Duke of Sidonia as he shal wish himselfe at St Mary Port among his orenge trees." Ere long indeed the desperate duke was driven into "the boisterous and uncouth Northren seas," where many of his "battered and crazed ships" were wrecked. "Insomuch that of 134 ships there returned home 53 onely small and great...
...dancing though it paradoxically did not give the singers enough good material to turn in convincingly dramatic performances, or even very interesting ones. The sung portions of the score were not particularly difficult, and the singers did not make too much of them. For the sake of continuity, I wish the spoken dialogue hadn't been included. Aside from what they were saying, the young teen-agers who were cast could bring no conviction to their roles: for them, it was declamatory speech, well executed, but meaningless...