Word: brisker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quartets are about as rare in the U.S. as quadruplets. Last week in Berkeley, Calif, a new one took the air. The Paganini Quartet (so named because their cello, viola, and two violins are Stradivarii once owned by the great violinist, Niccolo Paganini) played Beethoven and Debussy at a brisker than usual clip, but the music was warm and dramatic. Wrote the San Francisco Chronicle's critic, Alfred Frankenstein: "Perhaps never before has one heard a string quartet with so rich, mellow and superbly polished a tone...
Next day, brisker than ever, he bought the first American Legion poppy (which will not go on public sale until May 20), conferred with numerous G.O.P. bigwigs. After each conference, newsmen rushed to the Dewey suite. Did the Governor have any comment on the Wisconsin results? Would he now finally announce his candidacy for the GOPresidential nomination? Each time came the answer: "No comment...