Word: junius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bright Turban. Dr. Rebeca Carrion Cachot of the Peruvian National Museum of Archeology and Anthropology and Junius Bird of the American Museum loosened the ropes that tied the top of the bundle. The outer cloths, nearly as strong as new, peeled away easily. Inside were finer cloths, and perched on the top was a turban of red embroidery...
Seated massively at his desk that day in 1905, John Pierpont Morgan seemed lost in thought. He hardly even bothered to look up when his nephew Junius appeared before him with a slim, grey-eyed girl in tow. "Uncle," said Junius, "this is Miss...
...judgment entirely. She was a vivacious, black-haired beauty, who liked to keep her own affairs a mystery. She had been born abroad (Portugal, some friends guessed), but she was raised in the U.S.-perhaps in Virginia. She was working in the library at Princeton University when young Junius found...
...JUNIUS EDDY...
...other direction." But Britten's insistent, subtle use of rhythmic and dissonant backgrounds put a wallop into Librettist Ronald Duncan's seething play. The opera opens with a rousing drinking and singing bout in the tent of Roman Generals Junius and Collatinus, with Tarquinius, the Etruscan prince who "treats the proud city [Rome] as if it were his whore." It closes with an anticlimactic epilogue after Lucretia's dramatic suicide...