Word: extended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nevertheless, Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts is an impressive collection by one of the U.S.'s most stylish and original satirists. Indeed, Barthelme tucks into these stories his own credo and best definition. "Fragments are the only forms I trust," says one fractured soul. And elsewhere: "Strings of language extend in every direction to bind the world into a rushing, ribald whole...
...Risking the wrath of campus McCarthyites and Bobby worshipers, I would like to be the first among the student populace of the United States to extend my support to Hubert Humphrey [May 3] in his candidacy for the presidency...
...first-class in all respects. His tightly sealed conception projected a powerful sense of unity. It also preserved the concerto's familiar yet still voktile interplay of traditional restraints and puckish invention. Unhampered by technical difficulties, Mr. Kalam was the master of every phrase. By choosing not to extend dynamics to the upper limits, he achieved the ideal of every performing artist--the illusion of complete control with power to spare. The orchestra could not help but be influenced by the elegance of Mr. Kalam's playing. With the exception of a disagreement over dynamics in the second movement, strings...
...rendering the sensations of love-making Updike can become silly, almost ridiculous. But often he does describe these sensations in a supple ecstatic prose, with an extraordinary sensitivity to the nuances of physical movement. His perceptions then are concrete and lovely and extend our own sense of the way love...
...moment some courses have ten applicants for every place in the course. The two highest men in the department, Professor Eduard Sekler and Professor Albert Szabo, have both stressed that the primary purpose of the Carpenter Center is to extend ideas of visual communication to as many people in the university as is possible. This goal is as it should be in a liberal arts college...