Word: declaiming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main criticism that can be directed at the Requiem is the prominence of the text, and the presence of several passages which do little more than declaim words, detracting from the musical interest and continuity. Since the text is not liturgical, but rather passages from the Bible chosen by the composer, he wishes to focus interest on it as well as on the music. But these are not always compatible ends, and the integrity of the musical parts suffers as a consequence...
...James's Theatre (which Actress Leigh had protested two days before by marching down the Strand ringing a handbell). Fuming as Baron Blackford described the St. James's as "simply an obsolete, Victorian, inconvenient, uncomfortable playhouse with no architectural or historic value," she leaped to declaim: "My lords, I want to protest against St. James's Theatre being demolished!" While their lordships sat in stunned silence at this breach of protocol, the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod gravely put the arm on the interloper: "Now you will have to go, Lady Olivier." Said Lady Olivier ruefully...
...lectures are not only a questionable form of entertainment, but that they are not the most efficient or even stimulating way of getting an education. The problem is not, however, that professors think or talk too slowly. Even though one can read material much faster than a lecturer can declaim it, lectures should, in theory, serve as a dramatization, stimulating Thought and provoking questions at a peculiarly appropriate time--when the professor is present...
...emergence of a coherent Arab-Asian bloc at a time when East-West hostility has been more subdued in U.N. debates has been the dominant fact of the U.N.'s tenth session. In their eagerness to declaim against colonialism and race discrimination, the Arab-Asians have not always bothered to be responsible, and Western delegates smolder at a nation like Yemen attempting to pass judgment on someone else's devotion to liberty and progress...
...declaim the Advocate's poetry would slight Brock Brower's "Deucalion." A somewhat cynical, somewhat humorous affair on God's creation of man, Brower's easy meter and obscure, as well as obvious, metaphors give the poem a freshness unique in the issue. Frederick Seidel's "Not Too Damn Much Happens In the Spring" is a startling amalgam of Keats, Eliot, Cummings, . . . and apparently Seidel...