Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When you hear a movement from one of these works, the performer generally uses it as a vehicle to show you how accomplished he is. And almost every movement is breath-taking since it requires the violinist to carry two, or (at times) three parts simultancously. But Schneider has resisted the temptation to put himself before the music. As he explains in his program notes, "I believe the most important aim of the performer is to articulate the melodic, harmonic, and contrapuntal lines as clearly as possible, and not to become too involved in the technical difficulties of emphasizing...
...thought again of the blue poster and decided on a different tack. Taking a tremendous breath, he hollered "Yale Wins Today!" and ran along the brick sidewalks as the yell boomed back at him from the walls. Green bags turned slowly and stared at him; the gray flannels glared. This time the people turned around and blocked his way; as he crossed the street, all the cars seemed to leap at him. There was some spirit after all. Vag jumped back quickly, but with a smile on his face. Hitching up his tie, he walked confidently back toward...
...tremble under the poundings and stampings of the huge audience, and the greans and yips will travel downstream on the Charles. The gentleman who yesterday called the Harvard-Yale game stuff for kids will overnight turn into the noisiest and naughiest kids in the territory. After the game the breath of liquor will hang over the Square like a smog; blond hair and strapless backs will glitter through the night; and Cambridge, seat of culture, will be undistinguishable from any city where the American Legion is raising hell...
...Yuan's most outspoken critic of the government, 120 Nanking professors drafted open letters to Chiang and Communist Leader Mao Tse-tung. "People throughout the country," the professors wrote, "are praying for an early return of peace ... It is time to save the country's last remaining breath . . . Peace negotiations should be resumed for the formation of a multi-party coalition government...
...settled down on the grimy industrial towns of Pennsylvania's Monongahela Valley one day last week, blurred the bleak outlines of steel mills and foundries, and softened the glare of great furnaces. At sooty Donora (pop. 13,500), it was particularly heavy; the hills stand close and no breath of breeze had reached its streets. The haze thickened as locomotives and the high stacks of U.S. Steel's huge Donora Zinc Works sent fumes into the still air. But nobody paid much attention to the smoke-laden mist. The zinc plant had been operating for more than...