Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indeed, even apart from the slangy horrors of the final lines, this is not poetry at all, but a very abrupt, unmelodious and quite ugly species of prose. Perhaps this is the prayer best suited to the twentieth century, a prayer that harried man can blurt between mouthfuls of morning coffee...
...Oedipus's driving, primitive strength saves it just as the chorus's menacing force did the performance last night. Long 9/8 measures contrast with abrupt triplets to overshadow with a barbaric grandeur the occasional lapses of style. Forbes even took the chorus too far in this direction, for after a rather stale opening the melodic line became jerky; but this flaw disappeared when the chorus greeted Creon and Tiresias with excellent dynamic control and superb forcefulness...
...catalogue. In one London auction house, if a painting is listed as "by John Constable, R.A.," it means that the house experts are confident of its authenticity. As confidence wanes, the listing changes-to plain "John Constable,'' then to "J. Constable." and finally to an abrupt "Constable...
...Conductor Sacher regards as too personal for publication). The 20-minute concerto emerged as a first-rate work-colorful, rhapsodic, characterized by soaring melodic lines of originality and striking beauty. Frankly romantic, it gives only occasional hints of the later Bartok of the second Violin Concerto-notably in the abrupt shifts of mood, the raucous attacks of the second movement...
...slick technical standards of Hollywood, Operation Abolition is one of the least likely film hits since nickelodeons first started to charge a dime. The movie is an abrupt, badly edited 45-minute short. Its eye-jolting camera work is murky, its sound track raucous and shrill. But its impact is pure boffo. Prints of Operation Abolition are booked months in advance by Army camps, student groups, American Legion posts, political meetings, churches and corporations. Pennsylvania Democrat Francis E. Walter, chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, estimates that more than 10 million people have seen the film since...