Word: die
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Walter Williams, the legendary last survivor of the Civil War died, about 98½ years after the beginning of that conflict. When did the last survivors of the American Revolutionary War and of the War of 1812 die...
...sighted: "They've kept us alive, but they don't want to bother with us; we're too troublesome. They don't know what to do with us, but they're scared of God, so they daren't quite let us die.'' Yet Bjarnhof's blind also know that they must somehow cross die invisible color line back to the world of the seeing, or else lapse into the shufflers' parade toward "nothingness...
...that what the reader suffers is never sentimental pathos but the moving burden of bearing the unbearable. The wonder and purgative power of The Good Light is that men like Karl Bjarnhof's hero, pushed to the extremity of the human spirit, do not curse God and die, but like Little Jens, bless life and live...
...world there are probably only 15 tenors capable of stepping stage center in the second act of Tristan und Isolde and belting out "Seine eitle Pracht, seinen prahlenden Schein verlacht, wem die Nacht den Blick geweig't." Three of the 15 sing at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, a house that rightly prides itself on the size of its singing lineup. But last week, on the eve of a performance of Tristan starring new Soprano Birgit Nilsson (TIME. Dec. 28), the Met's three Heldentenore suddenly found themselves out of voice, the victims of winter colds. (The fact...
...CITY THAT WOULD NOT DIE (280 pp.}-Richard Collier-Dutton...