Word: fathoming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...calls as bridges the violins doubling waltz themes in octaves and the woodwind chordal sections, to name a very few. From the first bassoon solo in The Merchant, the sound is lively and attractive. Sometimes the geography can be confusing (a Viennese waltz set in Venice is hard to fathom), but the spirit is blithe. Sullivan was clearly best in a light vein; and it is easy to see why his operettas--all "light" in character and often composed in three or four weeks' time--surpassed his more labored creations...
...Until we fathom that the solution to Watergate is not a change in administrations but a severe curtailment of governmental scope, and that moral relativism must be replaced by a single and objective moral standard for all, we will continue to be submerged in the backwash of future Watergates and in the improper excesses of those who would rule...
...victims and onlookers. Therein lies the deepest fear of modern times. War may be obscene; still, it obeys its own rules of tactics and strategy. Organized crime kills, yet it has a penetrable logic of venality and revenge. But contemporary "senseless violence" is opaque. No one can accurately fathom the mind of the deranged, no screen exists to separate the terrorist and his target...
...Other marks the movie debut of Uta Hagen, a demigoddess of Broadway (she starred in the original productions of both The Country Girl and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) and an acting teacher of special renown. It is difficult to fathom her reputation judging from her work here. She is flam boyant to the point of grotesquery, as is Miss Muldaur. But the Udvarnoky boys are appallingly convincing as the fey twins. Mulligan's special talent for directing children (Up the Down Stair case, To Kill a Mockingbird) is again splendidly in evidence here...
...told him (Moulton) 'When you put up a building that you have to look at you do a nice job, when you put it in our backyard you use concrete block,'" "Kaufman said. "(He) couldn't fathom why we didn't want to look at a concrete wall...