Word: delightfullness
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A sentimental appeal is about the only one the work offers. It has its delightful emotive effect and then, when the weeping subsides, one comes to grips with the work itself. I found myself asking, among many questions, why Alma can so courageously accept the news of her nephew's...
Truffaut's directorial talent is most expressive in the frequent silent sequences. The camera captures the alternating anxiety and joy of the hero through his wordless activity--whether bounding eagerly up a flight of stairs or tearfully staring through the bars of a paddy-wagon. These effects are heightened by...
The Stabat Mater's simplicity became a great virtue because of this change. While its melodies and accompaniment flow with ease and winning sweetness, its mourning draws back from florid tone-painting to achieve a simpler expression of grief. The introduction of the chorus was, indeed, not an intrusion, for...
Of the poems in Mosaic, two are especially appealing, one an excellent translation of a Yiddish poem, "The Prayer of Ivan the Drunk," the other a delightful short poem by George Blecher, a junior in the College.
There was the time when he became so elated at a New York Philharmonic rehearsal that he fell off the podium into the second violins. "Podiums," he said, picking himself up with a lordly air, "are expressly designed as a conspiracy to get rid of conductors." Or the time Fritz...