Word: crisps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sensitive about the long-languishing French & Italian operas, Johnson scoured Europe for a man who could resuscitate them. In Paris he was struck by a fresh, vividly staged Fidelia; in Vienna he applauded a crisp mounting of Tannhauser. Finally in Salzburg he overtook and engaged the man responsible for both: young, sleek-haired Dr. Herbert Graf who was working with Toscanini. In his 33 years Graf has won a doctorate from Vienna University for his thesis Richard Wagner as Stage Director, staged more than 50 operas including Modernist George Antheil's Transatlantic. Known for his direct, challenging technique which...
...Building and many another chaste Manhattan skyscraper are nationally known. As a practical result, Beaux-Arts students have lately been getting assignments for esquisses and projects of automobile factories instead of orangeries. When they finish them in six weeks and ship them to New York, they are returned with crisp comments by such practical specialists as Detroit's Albert Kahn...
Coward discussed plays and players, novels and novelists, poetry and poets, in his characteristically crisp British accent, until there were but five minutes left before the rising of the curtain...
...crisp, clear winter's morning with the snow packed in clean squares on the ground. The blue sky seemed to reflect the purity of earth and air. It was the sort of day when a young man's thoughts turn to the contemplation of Nature's simple beauty. A student, weighty with books yet light with joy and good feeling, smiled at a little, rosy-checked lass who was patting the snow with her red-mittened hands. The sweet innocence on her round face made him wistful, and for a moment he lost his carefree look. But to show...
...leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees...