Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Echo and the Nemesis, a girl who has eaten her way to elephantine size makes up pathetic stories about a lovely dead sister who never existed. The sister, of course, is herself "dead, dead and buried under layers and layers of fat." The huge girl is ill and has the intelligence to know it, but at the end she is compulsively devouring a glutton's meal to the horror of a friend who has found...
...listener is seized for a moment, but afterward he wonders what he has really heard." Then why have composers been writing atonal music for 40 years? And why do they keep on writing it? Furtwängler: "It cannot be denied that modern man finds in this music an echo of his own feelings . . . Atonal music expresses something of the enigmatic times in which we live." What will the upshot be? Furtwängler: "We must let matters ripen . . . The final decision will rest with human nature...
Another of the Duke's latter-day reminiscences in oldtime tempos. The five rather pretentious arrangements begin & end with such familiar Ellington strains as The Mooche and Take the "A" Train, but do a lot of wandering in brass and echo-chamber solos in between...
Some think that Beer's constant body movement is an echo of days on the boxing team at Michigan. While an undergraduate he majored in History and Philosophy, winning a Rhodes scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford, in 1932. Majoring in History, he took first honors there in 1935, and returned to the U. S. with his wife, Roberta, whom he met at Michigan and married in England...
...chances: on opening night last week, they went out of the way to give unconvincing performances. Just's Rubashov, snapped a critic, was "a melancholy Don Quixote of the Revolution," and the rest of the actors were only "bearers of cues." Detmold's Red newspaper, Volks-Echo, lambasted the cast and said with a snarl: "Its resistance broke down easily before the propaganda offerings of the Fascist warmongers." Even in taking out Red insurance policies, the actors found themselves refused. The reason given by the insurance company: weak hearts...