Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the crucial blending and balancing of libretto and score that difficulties arise, partly from differences in tempo and tone, partly from the operetta medium itself. What is most inspired and Voltairian about Candide must plague operetta writing. Voltaire's book is much better suited to a film, which could approximate the breakneck pace and have a field day with the calamities; or to pure opera, which wholly through music could catch the book's speed, glancing wit and mocking elan...
...sonorities assume a significance in themselves, and the phrase or line is replaced by the aggregate of points. Whether the feeling of oppression from lack of variety which comes after hearing this music for five minutes would be dispelled by a knowledge of its structural subtleties is a crucial question, for upon its answer lies the life or death of this difficult style...
...alarm bell is ringing in the night." Both statements were remarkably similar in content. Both offered a powerful endorsement of the United Nations− certainly the strongest yet given by the Catholic Church in the U.S.-and in consequence they also provided a powerful moral boost to the crucial work of U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold (see FOREIGN NEWS). Both statements also contained support for President Eisenhower's handling of the crisis...
...lack of color tended to make demonstrations of certain reactions virtually meaningless. Even when samples of the final result were present in the viewing rooms, students were unable to see a crucial change in color at a given point in any reaction...
They now voted. One man was nudged from a drowsy state for the crucial decision, and another voted both "yes" and "no." When the tally was complete, it showed that a principled minority, led by Brachman, Theodore D. Moskowitz '58 and Larry Johnson '57, had been over-ridden by Stone forces, 8 to 7. President Abramson now gave a little speech in which he observed how wise the Council had been under duress, and that the fund was completely apolitical in nature. As a flurry of coats and men made for the door on adjournment, Al Hofeld...