Word: flair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exclusively in contrapuntal texture. Those who don't master it early usually never master it at all, as Gluck, Schubert and Schumann discovered. So one can only applaud Austin's approach, especially since this Fugue turned out to be much more than an academic exercise. Austin showed a definite flair for orchestration; the sound was clear and the climaxes well spaced. If the sonorities and harmonies were often reminiscent of his teacher, Roy Harris, no matter; this is as it should be in a composer's formative years. The encouraging thing is that Austin has assimilated Harris' virtues...
...Wheeler), and distraught at her lover's death. Vocally, she was head and shoulders above the others, crooning pearly high notes here, dropping into gutty dramatic tones there. She sang the great second-act aria, Vissi d'arte (rendered in English as "Love of beauty") with a flair worthy of the Met. Except for clumsy phrases in the translation ("How your hatred enhances my resolve to possess you!"), and a phlegmatic but overbearing orchestra, TV's first Tosca was a rattling good show...
Imaginative Flair. When Kimpton attacked the problem of the Hutchins B.A., some professors shook their heads in dismay. But the chancellor made it clear that he had no intention of throwing out the broad sort of program Hutchins had in mind. Today the university offers three plans to its undergraduate students, depending on how much specialization they want. They can 1) take three years of general education and one of specialized "tutorial study," 2) take two years of general education and two of concentration, or 3) combine their general courses with their major throughout the four years. One fairly certain...
...Geologist F. J. Pettijohn and Physiologist Ralph Gerard, all of whom have gone elsewhere. Will Chicago ever again become as exciting a place as it used to be? The danger is, says Kimpton, "that you get so used to thinking in terms of retrenchment that you lose any imaginative flair." Kimpton's own summary of his first three years: "We have repaired our house, but our real task is to build a city...
With none of his old flair for publicity, Good Communist Rivera quietly prepared to pack off the finished canvas as a token of his zeal to "a certain country." Though Rivera refused to be more specific, he did not deny that the certain country was the Soviet Union...