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This country's philharmonic was founded in 1936 as the Palestine Orchestra |
Israel
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Nathaniel Philbrick's account of this 1620 voyage is subtitled "A Story of Courage, Community & War" |
the Mayflower
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Accepting a Golden Globe, he said, "I want to thank my imaginary friend Rocky Balboa for being the best friend I ever had" |
Stallone
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Highly esteemed or regarded, it's often used in the salutation of a letter |
dear
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Daylight Saving Time is sometimes called this, like a song from "Porgy and Bess" |
summertime
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Gangly at 6'1", this 19th-century writer was considered one ugly duckling himself |
Hans Christian Andersen
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In 1962, after 70 years in Carnegie Hall, this orchestra moved to its new home in Lincoln Center |
the New York Philharmonic
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Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee's "The Emperor of All Maladies" is a scientific "Biography" of this disease |
cancer
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Though officially 0-0 as interim coach, Luke Walton was an NBA coach of the month for Oct./Nov. 2015, as this team was 19-0 |
the (Golden State) Warriors
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This youngest Disney dwarf can't talk because he has never tried |
Dopey
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The U.S. experimented with year-round Daylight Saving Time during the energy crisis of this decade |
the 1970s
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In 1012 Danish marauders under Thorkell the Tall seized England's Archbishop of this & brutally beat him with steak bones |
(Alex: Yeah, then they killed him with an axe.) (Valerie: Oh.)
Canterbury
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In 1926 this symphony that hatched the Pops became the first to play live on the radio |
Boston
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Thanks to a 2009 film, Julia Child's 48-year-old "Mastering the Art of" this reentered the bestseller lists |
French Cooking
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T.J. Miller has a less-than-flattering review of Ryan Reynolds' new face in this 2016 film |
Deadpool
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Cover or decorate with cloth in loose folds |
drape
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In 2007 Daylight Saving Time was changed in the U.S. so that the end date was moved to the first Sunday in this month |
November
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Eva Bang uses her 5'11" to good advantage in this sandy sport |
beach volleyball
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The Los Angeles Philharmonic has 2 homes: the Walt Disney Concert Hall & this outdoor venue |
the Hollywood Bowl
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"Prague Winter" is this Secretary of State's memoir of her life as a child in Czechoslovakia during WWII |
(Alex: You are back in the lead with $18,000.)
Madeleine Albright
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Marty & Mick (Scorsese & Jagger) bring us the '70s music scene on this HBO show |
Vinyl
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Verily, in the King James Bible, the 23rd Psalm says this word, "though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death" |
yea
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When Daylight Saving Time began in 1918, Maricopa County in this state refused to use it & the state still doesn't |
Arizona
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In 1990 6'2" Dane Peter Martins succeeded Jerome Robbins as boss of this Big Apple artistic organization |
the New York City Ballet
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In 2015 this capital's symphony appointed Sir Simon Rattle its new music director effective September 2017 |
London
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In this author's analysis, the effects of "Guns, Germs, and Steel" are vital to "the Fates of Human Societies" |
Jared Diamond
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This R&B queen, who ought to team up with Jack Johnson or Jack Jones, had a No. 1 album with "Woman" |
(Valerie: Who is Janet Jackson?) ... (Alex: Who is [*]? Jack and Jill.)
Jill Scott
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"50 Shades of Chicken", a cookbook with 50 chicken recipes, is a literary example of one of these |
parody
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A request to Congress to change a state's DST status should be for the "convenience of" this other "C" word |
commerce
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King Christian X stood tall versus Nazi occupiers, though it's sadly a myth that he wore this in sympathy with Denmark's Jews |
the (yellow) Star of David
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