Word: blatantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fallen down. Yet it emerged on top. All entrances were accurate and confident. The strings were together, really together, biting out their passages with a precision reminiscent of some Koussevitzky performances I have heard. The woodwinds were in tune with each other, and the brass was prominent but never blatant. In short, the Orchestra bit off a large piece of music and swallowed it admirably...
...West End and was greeted by all-night queues a block long. The critics sang the praises of Actress Leigh and Director Olivier, but gave Williams' script a mixed chorus of grudging praise and abuse. Samples: "I feel as if I had crawled through a garbage heap" . . . "Blatant, crude...
...Gilbert and Sullivan's The Gondoliers (1889), the Duchess of Plaza-Toro recites: / write letters blatant...
Schooled on the New York Daily News, Newsman Ruppel graduated with a bang to the Chicago Times in 1935 as managing editor. He brought along a flair for big pictures and blatant headlines. When Edward VIII abdicated, Ruppel proclaimed LONG LOVE THE KING! He sent a reporter to an Illinois mental hospital as a patient, bannered the inside story SEVEN DAYS IN THE MADHOUSE. After a blizzard: SNOW, SNOW, A THOUSAND TIMES SNOW. In four noisy, readable years under Ruppel, Times circulation doubled...
...then more famous for its blatant baseball than its Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, Brooklyn tried a professional orchestra once more. Asked to guest-conduct, famed Sir Thomas Beecham accepted with a crusty warning: "I am not prepared to transform your community overnight into a center of art and enlightenment . . ." In World War II, so many players were drafted that the orchestra collapsed again...