Word: hummed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like Dickens, Alger loved this world despite all the cruelty and cor ruption. His Wall Street district scenes give off a certain jolly hum. He describes a midtown brownstone as if his nose were pressed against the window. Writing of nickel rides on the el or six-course meals (wine included) for 75?, he exudes a kind of festivity...
...Elis led all the way in a ho-hum contest that was characterized by sloppy play and myriad turnovers by both teams...
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Like all Carter's music - save for his early Eight Etudes and a Fantasy - the Quartet is music of mind-numbing difficulty. It is practically impossible to hum or whistle, and almost impossible to play. Experiencing the drama of its dense inner layers and illusory sur faces - superbly captured by the Juilliard - is like viewing late Beethoven through an atonal prism. The power is there. So is the higher mathematics of Carter's intricate organizational scheme. As to deep feeling, and perhaps something of lovability, only time and richer acquaintance will tell...
Ellen P. Weiss, instructor in Hum 197, the course in film analysis, describe the Film Studies Council, which must be approved by the CHUL before it becomes binding, as "in the process of ratification" and said that the series "had been cancelled in hopes of preserving the spirit of the agreements...