Word: breadths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...increasingly aware. Other pianists of his age and training may be his match in technique, but few young pianists can muster the depths of thought and feeling that seem to come to him naturally. His reading of Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 last week had an unusual breadth, a feeling of spaciousness, an easy-breathing pulse. It had its purely bravura moments - trip-hammer scales that Barenboim's small, elegant hands looked incapable of - but the overall effect was one of quietly exalted strength...
...actors, only Boyer, who plays the hero's father, shows any style. Hero Ford portrays his Argentine as a sort of Fisk Tire Baby with sideburns, but in one scene his performance does achieve a certain breadth. During a colossal CinemaScope closeup, according to an excited M-G-M press release, his eyes are darn near 65 ft. apart...
...would be considerable. What size subsidies would be adequate and equitable? Exactly who should be eligible for subsidies? How many poor Southern farmers are really capable of being retrained? Despite the technical difficulties, the plan comes to grip with the basic problems. Its complexities are a measure of its breadth...
...Would the College be a wonderfully stimulating and rewarding place when every student at entrance was a potential magna or summa man? Or would a precocious academic careerism tend to corrupt the young and inhibit breadth of interest and the disinterested search for understanding and enrichment? Would academic competitiveness be greatly increased and tensions, anxieties and frustrations grow unbearably, particularly for those able students who, perhaps only because they dared to take a course outside their field or had bad luck with an instructor or two, found themselves
...music called for an unerring sense of rhythm and pitch, and the Gregg Smith Singers responded on cue like a well-oiled machine. Conductor Smith had arranged his twelve male and 13 female singers cannily, spreading them across the entire width of the stage in an arc that gave breadth and transparency to the group sound. It was, said a delighted local critic, "perhaps the first thoroughly enjoyable evening of dodecaphonic music in the history of that difficult medium...