Word: contrivedness
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In spending many hours with Castaneda over a matter of weeks, TIME Correspondent Sandra Burton found him attractive, helpful and convincing ?up to a point?but very firm about warning that in talking about his pre-Don Juan life he would change names and places and dates without, however...
In a novel so full of stark sillouettes it is too bad when the lucidity breaks down. There are some things that Rhodes cannot communicate: Reuben himself tells us that he is not altogether sure what finally got him out of The City, into the "finished, unfinished position" at which...
Not so the free schools for middle-class white children, which Kozol found usually operated by "liberal and genteel men and women" who strive to keep their schools nonpolitical. Despite their diverse resources, Kozol says that many of them offer children only "unimportant options," such as a choice between working...
In the execution of his own pieces he generally took the time very brisk, but contrived, besides this briskness, to introduce so much variety in his performance that under his hand every piece was, as it were, like discourse. When he wished to express strong emotions, he did not do...
Johnson played a variety of solos in addition to the accompanied pieces. The Pachelbel Chaconne in F Minor was a conservative piece whose execution was marred only by some intolerable upper registrations. The most explicit demonstration of the Frobenius's various sounds was in a set of sixteenth-century dances...