Word: enthusiast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PERFORMANCE as a whole had moments of great power and beauty, largely due to the enthusiast and disciplined singing of the chorus, but there was little overall sense of direction or shape. Individual sections failed to build properly because the musician always gave everything they had at the first opportunity instead of holding back to create a real dramatic climax Adams's inability to create carefully sculpted large sections prevented the performance from maintaining high emotional intensity. Without a single driving interpretation, the music lived--and died--from moment to moment...
Until now, the commercial results have surprised eager entrepreneurs by their failure to attain superhit status. It may be that there is less to Bruce's legend than meets the enthusiast...
...interesting biography, but only insofar as Rochester is an intriguing character; Greene's style and his organizing abilities aren't capable of sustaining a work that brings together Rochester's life and his poetry. The new biography certainly doesn't surpass V. Pinto s work, Enthusiast...
...hymn tune, as peaceful and completed as the camp-meeting songs his grandmother had sung. The tune recurs throughout the sonata, and always, after you've heard the whole piece once, with the same double resonance--which Ives said was single, "transcendent and sentimental enough for the enthusiast or the cynic, respectively." It was more possible in music than in politics to confidently identify backward and forward glances, "digging in real life" with selling insurance, radicalism with patriotism, a Concord hymn tune with Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...
...truck, body and assembly divisions. Terrell had been considered a candidate for president and chief operating officer, but that post went to a friendly rival, Elliott M. ("Pete") Estes, who replaces retiring president Edward N. Cole, an innovative engineer. Estes, 58, a jovial, mustachioed product engineer and auto-racing enthusiast, joined GM as a teenager in 1934. As president, he will oversee GM's $3.6 billion foreign operations, while continuing to manage North American auto production...