Word: elegiacally
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...reviewer of The Wobblies [July 7] took me through iambic, pentameter, didactic, hortatory, diffident, progenitor, detestation, existentialism, scintilla, quixotic, schematic, protagonist, bourgeois, onomatopoetically, proletariat, crux, status quo, ante, minimal, prosody, recalcitrant, quiescent, ideologically, ascendancy, coalesce, dactyl and elegiac. But what, pray, is a bindle stiff? Is it possible that your man owns all these words as an integral part of his vocabulary...
Adventurousness was the word for the second half. Ohana's Neumes* (the asterisk is part of the title) for oboe and piano (1965) was alternately elegiac and expressionistic, contrasting long expressive oboe lines with fistand palm-technics for the piano. Hrisanide's A la Recherche de la Verticale (also 1965) utilized the noise-making as well as tone-producing capacities of the solo oboe, featuring effects such as clicking keys, blowing on a reed without oboe, and blowing through oboe without reed. The clicking-key effect got longer with each recurrence and, coupled with the title, apparently had some sort...
...crocodiles and the whalelike surfacing of rhinos. Birds and flowers sang in one enchanted room; a land-fast 80-ft. rocket took off for the moon in simulated flight. Yet in all the gaiety and glare, in the whomp of bands and the bray of a calliope, only one elegiac sign reminded pleasure seekers that the man was no more who created this fairyland: the flag was at half-staff...
FAREWELL TO STEAM by David Plowden. 154 pages. Stephen Greene Press. $8.95. An elegiac account of an age defeated by oil and jet engines-the lake and river steamboats and the great locomotives that opened up the continent...
...ORCHARD (Caedmon). The Minnesota Theater Company, under the direction of Tyrone Guthrie, gives a balanced rendition of Chekhov's complex last play. The playwright set out to write a comedy about the social types in a changing Russia, but his characters, while absurd in their inflexibility, are also elegiac in their ineffectuality. Jessica Tandy plays an aristocratic Ranevskaya, as flowery as her beloved orchard and just as fruitless. As the arriviste, Lee Richardson is believably ambivalent as he reluctantly reaps triumph over his former employers. Hume Cronyn, however, sounds too nasally shrewd to be the bumbling clerk...