Word: devilishness
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...fast jive of Too Darn Hot, from the musical brio of We Open in Venice to the verbal lift of Always True to You (In My Fashion). And again & again melody and mockery go hand in hand-nowhere better than in Wunderbar, a charming bit of schmalz-and a devilish parody...
Next day, the critics were merciless. Composer Cesar Cui called the symphony's discords "devilish"; Rimsky-Korsakov told Rachmaninoff, "Forgive me, I do not find this music at all agreeable...
Last week, five years after Rachmaninoff's death, Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra gave the U.S. its first chance to hear Rachmaninoff's First, on the first U.S. symphony network program ever televised (see RADIO). After 50 years, its discords no longer sounded devilish, but neither did they sound heavenly. The First had little of the lush lyricism of his later works; it sounded more like Tchaikovsky's Festival Overture, "1812"-without the cannon...
...Christians chiseled off the heads & feet of the ancient, carved gods (works of the devil) and covered them with mud. Now the Chicago diggers are picking off the mud, almost grain by grain, and finding beneath it the ancient gods, headless and footless, but otherwise almost as clear and devilish...
Despite the I-won't-wear-it manifestoes still echoing all over the U.S., Paris and most Manhattan fashion designers went confidently about their devilish work (see BUSINESS). Like it or not, the women would have pinched waists and puffed hips, predicted the couturiers. And why not? Look what the women put up with from the painters...