Word: conceits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaulle is your man? He is too puffed up with conceit to see that he is no leader; he is just a front man for a gang of adventurers and torturers who disobey his most solemn orders under his nose and get away with it. A once great country and people take another long stride toward a Fascism that bids fair to combine the cruelty of Naziism with the bumbling incompetence of the Falange. If you think that France is going to be ruled by enlightened capitalists and a kind of Gallic modern republicanism, then your ignorance of the most...
Wrapped in Conceit. The competition was the inspiration of Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Conductor John Pritchard, who feels that there are plenty of young conductors around with more talent than they can shake a stick at. Why not test them with a first-rate orchestra? He invited Cologne-born William Steinberg, conductor of both the Pittsburgh Symphony and the London Philharmonic, to help him judge a contest for musicians under 40. The pair screened 90 applicants, "weeded out all the dilettantes,'' ended with a list of 19 competitors from nine countries. Each had to prepare a repertory of twelve...
Conductor Steinberg did as much teaching as judging. He went on the theory that all conductors are wrapped in conceit ("The degree of conceit among conductors is enormous, even in beginners"), and often cut them down so adroitly that, as one contestant put it, he "demolished your authority entirely, right in front of the orchestra." Most frequently. Steinberg jumped on the contestants for exaggerated gestures. When he spotted a shoulder-to-waist stroke, he would inquire acidly: "Are you a windmill?" Contestants soon learned that a 3-in. flick of the baton before the sensitive Liverpool Philharmonic could...
...including rock-solid Republican James Gould Cozzens. Their childless marriage has been a remarkable success. While he stuck to his writing and made little money from it, she was the real breadwinner. Says Cozzens: "It could have been a humiliating situation, but I guess I had a certain native conceit and felt that her time was well spent...
Tuned Sheep. But he went on with the show, served up nearly 30 minutes of his brand of exaggerated, wildly allusive humor. The first sketch was a pleasant conceit about a hot block of "tuned sheep," whose neck bells rendered a spirited version of Lullaby of Birdland. The second, "Incident at Los Veroces," was a live sermon about the self-destruction "of a thoroughly evil city" that is as revealing of Freberg's Baptist upbringing as of his zany imagination...