Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rosy Prospects. Britten regarded his visit to the U.S. as a vacation trip "rather from the general European atmosphere than from overwork." Though his knowledge of the U.S. is pretty well limited to New York City and suburbs, he found the U.S. "a very rosy prospect" for composers : "The American...
True enough, the reckless drivers come in for their share of the blame. A speeding, hit-and-run car caused the principal accident a while back, and metropolitan speed limits are not universally observed. But the number of motorists who will stop for nothing short of the Square is small...
By the time the Germans got to Paris, Nicole, a fragile blonde of 15 who played Bach for relaxation ("So big. So high. Like the sky") was already well-known on Paris concert stages. The Germans never knew that many nights, after her practicing, Nicole mounted her bicycle to run...
The leader of the gold-hunting party (Huston), whom the others call "the old-timer," is an almost superhuman character. He keeps the party together as long as he can, and it is only when his wisdom loses its effect on the nuerotic boy-man Dobbs (Bogart), that there is...
...passion for the possibilities of his medium. "In a given scene," he says, "I have an idea what should happen, but I don't tell the actors. Instead I tell them to go ahead and do it. Sometimes they do it better. Sometimes they do something accidentally which is effective and true. I jump on the accident...