Word: bravura
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which John Osborne's voice-splenetic, grieving, raging-is heard with more furious personal intensity than at any time since Look Back in Anger. As a defeated solicitor for whom life in the modern world has be come a playing field of pain, Nicol Williamson, 28, gives a bravura perform ance of epic dimensions and phenomenal resourcefulness...
...dozens of cities across the nation, the war on poverty has succeeded mainly in triggering sordid squabbles and scandals. Johnson himself is largely to blame for the fact that Operation Head Start, an immensely successful summer program of preschool instruction for children, has run into trouble. With characteristic bravura, he promised that the program would be put on a year-round basis-without realizing that it will now cost $450 million, when one-third that amount is available...
Across the nation, U.S. cities burst into calculated and bravura finery. Bright color blossomed where there was none before, drab public spaces were bathed in light, and people kissed (cheek to social cheek) who had never kissed before. As everyone knows-if reminded-Christmas Day itself marks the birth of Christ. But it is sometimes hard to remember in the weeks before. Instead, the chief big man seems to be that fellow Santa Claus, the patron saint of giving. Pillowed and pastyfaced, he chortles from a myriad of department-store thrones, and pasteboard likenesses beam from drugstore windows. Under...
...symphonies as they were originally orchestrated, Leonard Bernstein has compiled a catalogue of the composer's many moods. He deals decisively with the complicated polyphonic structure that Schumann imposed upon his gentle, lyric thoughts and puts the composer-whimsical, sad, angry-across without blurring overlaps of Teutonic bravura...
...this is a recording of that long-awaited performance. The program, which ranges from a Bach- Busoni toccata (Horowitz's good luck piece because it was the first selection on his debut program) through Chopin to Scriabin, shows a variety of technique and mood from lyric tranquillity to bravura virtuosity. The pianist is master of them all. Perhaps most beautiful is the inspired Schumann Fantasy in C Major; the final notes of the second movement float out as if played on an English horn and last unbelievably long...