Word: franticness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...score. This allows him even more freedom of movement, and he takes advantage of it, yet with a sense of controlled energy. In General Dance, the last section of the work, Mehta captured all the flavor of the carousing, boisterous theme development. This section features several passages of frantic tension, reminiscent of Ravel's Fetes (from Trois Nocturnes), written more than ten years before Daphnis et Chloe. The three sections of the suite are played without pause, and Mr. Mehta achieved true continuity among all three, finally building into a raucous and jubilant climax at the end of the work...
...Diva, she has rarely sung as passionately or been so actively involved in the dramatic proceedings. Under Tito Capobianco's ingenious direction, Sutherland clearly dramatized the two sides of Norma's often enigmatic personality-severe and stately as the imperious high priestess of the Druids, yielding, even frantic as a woman in love with, and ready to kill for, a Roman proconsul (Tenor John Alexander...
...that he had noted on his Olympic medical form. But neither the Olympic medical committee nor the U.S. coaching staff had warned Rick to discontinue the treatment during the Games (although a U.S. team doctor claimed that he had advised the youngster against taking the medication). Thus, despite a frantic appeal by U.S. coaches, the I.O.C. eliminated Rick from further competition and demanded the return of his gold medal, which he had already taken back to the U.S. DeMont became the best-known Olympian since Jim Thorpe in 1912 to have to return a medal...
...first, real and fantasied crises led the "brothers and sisters" to make frantic telephone calls to the hospital therapists. In one instance, when they asked what to do about a family member who was running around the house waving a knife, they were simply advised: "Do whatever you think right. Call the cops if necessary." Says DeLeon: "No one ever got hurt. Once a guy got drunk and busted up the whole house. The police picked him up, let him out the next day, and he went back and repaired the house." Eventually, each group took to solving most...
Some Congressmen, including Frank Thompson (D-N.J.). admitted to being swayed by Daly's case. With the din of professional education lobbyists such as the American Council on Education and the American Association of Universities rising around House chambers, added to the frantic noises of private colleges, the arguments advanced by Daly won two showdowns by five vote margins. The colleges, at least private ones, were spared the trauma of sex-blind admissions...