Word: bog
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...stronger, the general style more impassioned. Already Verdi was using his subsequently famous technique of writing sprightly, almost gay tunes for the grimmest situations and somehow getting away with it. Nabucco's weakness is that it has in its score little dramatic unity and that it tends to bog down in mere declamation ("It's one of those stand-up-there-and-sing operas," says Baritone Cornell MacNeil...
...people." Barker has considerable respect for the sincerity of the witch doctors, who regard their vocation as divinely inspired-but very little for their knowledge. One of them tried to cure Barker's hay fever with a mysterious, gagging brew that "tasted like a Scottish peat bog." It didn't work, Barker adds...
...will test no more nuclear deterrent weapons while Dwight Eisenhower is still in the White House, even if negotiations bog down. The testing moratorium has run 17 long months already. Ike is not likely to break it before the summit conference in May, his mission to Moscow in June, the political conventions in July, or during the campaign months...