Word: delphian
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...nation's money supply and guardians of the value of its currency. They immerse themselves in financial esoterica, dress somberly in three-piece blue suits, and give the impression that they speak only to one another and to God. When they do appear in public, they issue Delphian warnings, usually of impending inflationary doom. An optimistic central banker has been defined as "one who thinks the situation is deteriorating less rapidly than before...
...become something of a legend, as critics never tire of reminding us. Yet he did not come by this talent easily: he worked at it as a young journalist. Fox example, in 1929 he got a New Yorker assignment to report the meetings of the Orange County Afternoon Delphian Society. As Walcott Gibbs reflected in 1938, after a while the stories became almost impossible to read, "the sensation was uncomfortably like being trapped among the ladies while they talked...
Last week Quadros proclaimed his own Cuban policy, and though it was as Delphian as many of his remarks, it obviously suggested that he was not joining any hunt-Castro posse. Said Quadros: "Brazil is opposed to any foreign intervention, direct or indirect, to impose on Cuba any given form of government. The principle of nonintervention applies even with respect to adoption of a system of representative government, a system that Brazil prefers, recommends and practices as the best for the Americas." By intervention, said Quadros, he meant diplomatic, economic, military, or even ideological. "Brazil will defend the Cuban people...
...Delphian Grandeur. The compositions of Alan Hovhaness, wrote one Japanese critic, "are like Japanese scrolls. As they are rolled out, they reveal new images and their message bit by bit. Western classical music in comparison is like a photographic print." Japanese audiences heard Hovhaness conduct several of his older works-Psalm and Fugue, the 28-minute Concerto No. 8-plus two brand-new works written in transit: Symphony No. 8, subtitled "Arjuna," after the name of a mythical hero from Indian folklore; and the choral piece Fuji (based on an 8th century Japanese poem beginning: "As I stepped...
...side by side yet independent of one another, its use of Eastern dance patterns, its little swirling eddies of sound. So far, Japanese audiences have not heard the Hovhaness work most frequently played in the U.S.-Mysterious Mountain, a spacious, broadly flowing 17-minute work that conveys an almost Delphian sense of grandeur...