Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people who were working on this week's cover story could return the compliment with sincerity. For Artist Boris Chaliapin, the assignment brought warm memories of family: his father, the great Russian basso Feodor Chaliapin, was a close friend of Rubinstein's in Europe many years ago. Between them, for reasons only they really know, painter and pianist decided on the rather unusual garb of red coat and vest for the portrait. And why is the piano green? "You don't have to see it green," said Chaliapin. "It is black; perhaps it was an artistic liberty...
Other unearthed P.D.Q. favorites, including the cantata Iphigenia in Brooklyn, have since been collected on a Vanguard recording. Perhaps the most touching compliment Schickele received was from a lady who rushed up to him after one concert, shook his hand warmly and gushed: "Oh, professor, it was awful, just awful!" "Thank you," said Schickele, "thank...
...Rhapsody in Blue with grand, sweeping gestures. Says Lewis: "It's harder getting a symphony to swing than getting a jazz ensemble to play Bach." At performance's end, the audience cried "Grazie, maestro!" and the string players tapped their bows on their instruments, a high compliment that the tradition-minded orchestra has paid to only two other conductors (Herbert von Karajan and Victor de Sabata) in the past 20 years...
...President of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, I would like to compliment you on an excellent, informative story on anesthesiology [Nov. 5]. One statement requires clarification: "Nearly gone is the nurse-technician who dates back to the early days of ether and chloroform." This implies that nurse anesthetists today only rarely administer anesthetics. The reverse is true. About 40% of the anesthesias are given by members of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, about 45% by certified registered nurse anesthetists, and the remainder by other physicians, nurses or technicians...
...campaign for leadership of the Turkish government, Demirel was attacked by his opposition as too pro-American. As it turned out, that seemed to be a compliment. Demirel last week rode the demirkirat to an overwhelming victory, received 55.5% of the vote, far more than anyone had expected, and took over as Premier...