Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says Szell, "at combining the virtuosity and polish and opulence that are characteristic of top-ranking American orchestras with the expressive abandon of typically European orchestras in their best days." And he adds: "If you give me a week, I might think of a gripe...
...Grove era have since snuffed out the Table's candles that on its opening night in the thirties supplied the only light in the dining hall when the power failed twice. During the war, the Table's original customs nearly disappeared as a shortage of help forced patrons to abandon their tuxedos and stand in line for their food with the rest of the House. After the war, the House Council voted back "dressing" with the service...
...growing boy bursting through the seat of too-tight trousers, Hygiene must get some new clothes to function adequately. Stillman Infirmary is ancient, outmoded and inconvenient. The Hygiene building itself is bulging with a pot-pourri of clinics, laboratories, and offices that crowd in on each other with abandon...
...Where was the captain? No one knew. No alarm was given, no ship's officer appeared on the bridge to give the order to abandon ship or to stand fast. The purser told the passengers that the Champollion was aground off Israel, and that the city ahead was Haifa. "Everything is fine," he added cheerily...
...soaring serpent of sound. "If you're interested in music," Benny remarks soberly, "you can't slop around. I expected things, and they had to be done. Yeah, they'd grumble, but I think the band really liked it." With the discipline Benny exacted came an abandon greater than that of most barrelhouse bands. The pounding, high-polished drive of the ensemble made an urgent background for the wild flights of star performers, and every solo was free speech in music...