Word: horned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...means to develop its immense resources. Since the turn of the century, the U.S. has poured more direct private investments into Latin America ($6 billion plus) than into either Europe, Canada or the combined remainder of the world. Between the Rio Grande and Cape Horn there are 2,000 U.S. enterprises: oil companies, mines, auto factories, power plants, banana plantations...
...Mozart: Horn Concertos (Dennis Brain; Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Herbert Von Karajan; Angel). Mozart wrote four horn concertos between 1782 and 1786, each one more fun than the last. Britain's Dennis Brain, one of the world masters on the French horn, ripples them off, both elegantly and buoyantly...
...wild cheering after the winning score, Joanno Rogers of Wellesley was hit on the head with a horn and was unconscious for five minutes...
...soft beach, and a bell buoy clanked mournfully. On the other side of the record was a kind of aural shipboard narrative, beginning with the gorgeous sound of the Queen Mary's deep bass whistle, and ending with the horrid harrumph of the West Quoddy Head horn...
...exhibits many virtues of late Romantic music-a large yet skillfully employed orchestra, unhackneyed melodies, profound knowledge of traditional form and its potential for variation. Yet Bruckner's fondness for symphonic rhetoric and undeniable long-windedness try the patience of many. He writes too many thundering climaxes, too many horn calls, too many notes. The limited expressiveness of his melodies simply fails to justify their colossal setting...