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Gross did some of his best playing of the afternoon in the next work, Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata. The first movement was crisp and sure, although now and then the tempo wavered; the second was free of the excess of sentiment by which it is so often destroyed; the third was just right...
...loudspeaker crackled in the crisp mountain air: "The next runner will be Bibbia." On a Swiss hilltop high above St. Moritz, Nino Bibbia, 35, a brawny Italian grocer, buckled on his crash helmet and goggles, carefully checked the heavy leather pads on his knees and elbows. He adjusted steel shields that guarded the back of each hand, then he threw himself onto a sled no bigger (3½ ft.) than a youngster's Flexible Flyer...
...Beck himself, John McClellan, who also heads up the Senate's newly created special rackets committee, put the alternatives in two crisp sentences: "If he is leaving the country for good, well, that's it. But I assume he will be back, and when we are ready to hear him, we will subpoena...
...crisp, dialogue-filled pages. Author Gill has drawn a recognizable portrait of a fast-talking, flip and money-hungry operator, but when he reaches for a deeper meaning in Charlie's woes, he reaches into emptiness. As a novel or play, the book must stand in the shadow of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, since both take the rigid form of a one-day revelation of a family's sins and strength. But here is no passionate view of the tragedy of life: easy optimism and shallow hope bubble...
...separate 45-r.p.m. record enclosed in reviewers' copies of her album, Landowska carefully explains to critics how she scaled her piano to the 18th century: "The pedals should be used, but with discretion, so that the harmonic and melodic texture will remain clear, crisp, light and transparent." In addition, "improvised ornamentation" is indispensable. "Those performances which we respect today for their literal devotion," says Landowska, "would have been called barbaric by Mozart's contemporaries, for it was in his art of ornamentation that the 18th century interpreter was judged...