Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bowed to the packed house with such vehemence as to send his hair awry. It was a night of nervousness and novelty. It was the first performance of the Philharmonic's 95th season. It was the first time in ten years that the season patrons could not look forward to a single concert under their beloved Conductor Arturo Toscanini. It was the first time that John Barbirolli, 36, had ever faced an American audience, and this audience that he was tackling at his debut was the most exacting, the most critical in the country. To many in that audience...
...ornamental curtain-raiser, Berlioz's Roman Carnival Overture. The audience, at once soothed by his meticulous phrasing, his insistence on broad, full tones, was no less impressed by his physical resource. Planting his feet widely, chin down, Conductor Barbirolli swayed his shoulders delicately through the lyrical passages, hunched forward to demand a pianissimo, twitched his kinetic torso and wagged his flying tails to call for quickened tempi. He guided the orchestra carefully through the tenebrous but imitative twilights of a symphonic poem by Arnold Bax, The Tale the Pine-Trees Knew. Like Barbirolli, to whom it is dedicated...
...Boston lawyer before he joined the Army in the War. His three high-school horses, Vast, Si Murray and Olympic, can each do 135 different tricks. Each trick has a technical name like the piaffé (trotting on one spot), the passage (highly accentuated trot with slight forward movement). His horses get neither beatings for punishment nor carrots for reward. The best that they can hope for is an occasional pat. The immobility of a good dressage rider is actually an illusion. He achieves his effects by shifts of weight so slight as to be imperceptible, pressure...
Finally, according to Lord Cottenham. ''with the relentless surge of a hurricane, the big car went. It neither leapt, shot, howled nor roared, as other cars are not inaccurately described as doing according to their kind. It just moved forward very fast indeed. At about 50, I changed to third. At about 70, I changed to top. . . . Thereafter, I did 93. . . . These are speedometer speeds, but the speedometer is one that satisfies Messrs. Rolls-Royce. . . . Farther on . . . I spoke a word of warning to my passengers and did a quick pull-up from 80 with both hands...
When the neck is broken, first-aiders "should gently roll the victim on a plank so that he rests face upward, and under no circumstances with the head tilted forward. This is the best position to prevent movement of the fractured cervical vertebrae...