Word: flawless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gieseking took his seat at the piano. With his thick shoulders hunched motionless over the keyboard and his heavy head bent reflectively, he had an air of a man determined to prove his case quickly. When he began to play a Mozart sonata, its contours were practically flawless, but the playing was so rigidly controlled that the effect was almost oppressive. Beethoven's Sonata Op. 110 was more relaxed, but it was only when he came to the impressionist music of Debussy and Ravel-billowing up tinted clouds of tone and lacing them with bright spiderwebs of melody-that...
...world's Easter gifts, few are as lavish as the bejeweled eggs passed out by Russia's rich and royal in the time of the czars. The smaller eggs-delicate trinkets of gold and enamel, flawless rose quartz, pearls and diamonds-were the gifts of Russia's wealthy classes; the largest and costliest eggs were reserved for the reigning Romanovs. Three handsome examples (opposite) are the gold and lapis lazuli egg, with a miniature portrait of Czarevitch Alexis, given by Nicholas II to his Czarina in 1912; the fabulous rock crystal egg (at top), which contains...
Doing it just that way, with flawless form and breathtaking distance, Riisnaes soared 290 ft., longest of the championship and 3 ft. better than Devlin, on his first jump, wound up with 214.0 points to Runner-Up Devlin's 204.7. The new North American champion began his jumping career at the age of five in Norway, where he has since made a modest name in that land of giant jumpers. Riisnaes, who beat the best in the U.S., is currently just the junior champion of Norway...
...Steamboat Springs, Colo., with leaps of 276 and 289 ft.-plus almost flawless form-Art Tokle of Chicago's Norge Ski' Club won the national ski-jumping championship. And in Ishpeming, Mich., racing through a near blizzard, Norman Oakbig of Bush Lake, Minn, took the North American cross-country (10 mile) championship...
...jazz, the saxophone was played like a symphonic instrument. James Powers, a freshman who has never taken a lesson with a professional saxophonist, gave an excellent example of the serious saxophone style now prevalent in France. Mr. Powers learned this style by listening to records. In addition to a flawless technique, he displayed a rich tone, occasionally enhanced by a discreet vibrato...