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Nevertheless, a constant feeling of limitation and constraint hampers the orchestra and prevents the musical quality of their playing from attaining to the standard of their technique. Such a defect becomes particularly evident in a concert devoted to works like the "Eroica" Symphony, the G-Major Piano Concerto, and the "Egmont" Overture--works offering possibilities in interpretation and depth that are conspicuously avoided...
...drunken Charles being "absolutely carried home upon a man's shoulders thro' Silver Street, up Parson's Lane." nearly falling off but "by a cunning jerk" regaining his balance until "deposited like a dead log at Gaffar Westwood's." He chafed under the increasing constraint that heralded the approaching Victorian era. He died in 1834, aged only 59 but thankful to have seen the last of a "damned, canting, unmasculine, unbawdy age." Mary, ten years his senior, outlived him by 13 years...
...result of such systematic repression of anti-Peronistas is that political conversations-except in private and out of earshot of servants or school-indoctrinated children-are unknown in the capital. In the eighth year of Perón, the atmosphere of constraint and fear that prevails in Buenos Aires is probably unequalled this side of the Iron Curtain...
...tradition of Venetian painting -a tradition which Giovanni Bellini, the teacher of Titian and Giorgione, founded. For the chill, narrow intensity of earlier Venetian art, these men substituted warmth, breadth and grace. Critic Antoine Orliac once summed up Veronese in a scholarly line: "He is the expression of hieratic constraint relaxing into luminous activity...
...first year in the U.S. (after a youth of somber constraint in Nazi Germany) has shown me many wonderful and wondrous things. It was an especially great experience for me to read your factual and dispassionate contribution of "The Cat in the Kremlin" [TIME, July 17]. It made me perceive more acutely than ever before that truth is the powerful weapon of a strong country ... I hope that Americans will never cease to [appreciate] its vital necessity...