Word: horned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With his horn-rimmed glasses and floppy bow ties, his retreating hairline and advancing waistline, the slightly built man with the professorial air hardly looked the part of the New Frontiersman. But wherever the action was during the thousand days of John F. Kennedy's Administration, there...
Less excusable was the orchestra's refusal to play a true pianissimo, depriving Strauss's tragic chord of most of its mystery. And often inflections betrayed caution and over-literalness, such as in the excessively elongated eighths of the horn-calls. Fortunately Don Juan is a rondo, which means that what goes wrong the first time can be corrected the next: The intonation of the violins and the precision of the brasses both improved rapidly...
Aside from excessive volume, the orchestra handled the complex score amazingly well. Especially delightful was the clarinets' witty opening of the Allegretto, the tuba's blustering fifths in the first trio, and the fine horn ensemble at the end of the first movemnt. The Bach chorale and its successive variations were somewhat less than serene; but the transition to Baroque harmony and sublime peace ("My Jesus comes--farewell world"), from twelve-tone sufferings does demand incredible skill...
...Porsche engines in Volkswagens. One such car is owned by Actor Paul Newman, three more by Racing Buff Art Sparks of Pasadena. "It's a great satisfaction," says Sparks, "to come up behind a Cadillac on a hill on the way to Las Vegas, let him have the horn and go breezing by. They wonder what happened...
During the Tufts game, a slightly inebriated fan reportedly turned on a boy who had been blowing a horn into his ear and clubbed him with his flask...