Word: grandeurã
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...performers, then, the challenge of crafting a concert of canonical anchors like the Beethoven symphonies is to avoid easy recourse to the habit of flawless dignity. Consummate artistry involves not only the meaningful realization of a composition, but the further ability to destroy and then resurrect its grandeur??to connect with the inner greatness of the work while stripping away the pomp that surrounds it. The goal is for the audience to like it not because they are supposed to, but because they can’t help...
...might just be the distorted looking glass of the last 20 years, but there’s something about the 1980s and its music that brings to mind the Atlantic City casinos built in that decade. The casinos aspire to grandeur??domed, cream ceilings, great pseudo-classical columns, golden moldings—and yet are undone by the very beginning of paint peel, the first sag of the ceiling, the discolored hint of water damage from shirking on the plumbing. They might have looked good when they were first built, but they were never built to last...
...proclaims. Yet he’s also painfully conscious of corporeality: “Two more inches I’da been in that casket / According to the doctor I could of died in traffic.” This paradox—and his delusions of grandeur??are perhaps best embodied by that self-given sobriquet: “best rapper alive.” Government I Can Trust This Brother: Nas and Obama’s Politics of Hope Primary source: “Black President.” Prospectus: Jay-Z may have been...
Perhaps “grandeur?? overstates Tacony’s legacy. In its heyday at the end of the 19th century, Tacony was a factory town, dominated by the Henry Disston and Sons Saw Works. Makers of the strongest files and saw blades in the world, Disston and Sons was a jewel of American industry. Henry Disston bought up 390 acres of land in 1871, when Tacony was mostly farmland, and built a town on his estate so that his workers could live close to the factory. Like other paternalistic titans, Disston controlled the workers inside and outside...
...friends from all different quarters and from every stage of his life. Proof of the deep affection others felt for him was illustrated at his beautiful funeral on Monday, Nov. 26. This service for Denny, held at St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church in New York, was matched in grandeur??but unequalled in passion—perhaps only by the grandest of state funerals. Nearly a thousand people gathered there to manifest their high regard and sincere affection for Denny...
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