Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...directed to the prancing paranoid who planned to rule the world from Berlin, it revealed not so much historical fact as the fantastic lengths of self-deception followed by Hitler's ever-toadying diplomats in their constant effort to tell the Führer what he wanted to hear...
...because Sperry Rand had not passed out refreshments ("Other companies give you sandwiches and cold drinks''), stopped him in mid-charge, earned herself some solid-gold applause: "I love my country. I love to pay taxes. And I've waited an hour and 15 minutes to hear about Sperry Rand and dividends." Chairman MacArthur's report: both...
...section ("It should be felt rather than heard") from conflicting with other instruments. As he sees it, the drums and bass ought to play melody too, not just accompaniment, and then give way to the others. ''Each man has a ballad of his own, and he can hear the others. The music resembles chamber music but with jazz feeling...
...this production is clearly on the first two words of the title. The script is one of Shakespeare's most fast-moving, anyway; but the directors have pruned it and relentlessly applied the horsewhip until it emerged as a fast, furious and frolicsome western. The lights go down; we hear a habanera; someone dashes down the aisle from the rear of the audience, leaps on stage and fires a rifle. From then on to the end we are swept up in the production's riotously breathless pace. Other characters race down the aisle, in and out of the wings...
...sonata, the gateway to the late period, is too well known to need extended comment here. Let it be said that the transition from the slow movement to the last was marked by some of the most scintillating trills it has been this reviewer's pleasure to hear in many a moon, and that the Finale was played with plenty of Entschlossenheit according to Beethoven's directions...