Word: humor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After intermission the Quartet turned to a sprawling Mendelssohn work, whose first movement tried our patience, even with the score on hand. The humidity took its toll in the andante, but the prior minuet was full of subtlety and humor, and the closing presto sparkled. The four adults were a cut above even very talented Harvard chamber musicians, few of whom could afford violinist Kinloch Earle's 1630 Amati...
After intermission the Quartet turned to a sprawling Mendelssohn work, whose first movement tried our patience, even with the score on hand. The humidity took its toll in the andante, but the prior minuet was full of subtlety and humor, and the closing presto sparkled. The four adults were a cut above even very talented Harvard chamber musicians, few of whom could afford violinist Kinloch Earle's 1630 Amati...
...there are few lyrics, so just sitting and listening to it is a bit of a bore. But when Fatboy Slim gets in a groove, the results can be uplifting. And the low-rent video for Praise You, with its amusingly terrible choreography, shows he has a sense of humor...
...immigrated to England with his wife and his favorite daughter and colleague Anna "to die in freedom." He got his wish, dying not long after the Nazis unleashed World War II by invading Poland. Listening to an idealistic broadcaster proclaiming this to be the last war, Freud, his stoical humor intact, commented wryly, "My last...
...paper in 1969, "have confirmed the findings of Isaac Newton in the 17th century, and it is now definitely established that a rocket can function in a vacuum as well as in an atmosphere. The Times regrets the error." The grim Professor Goddard might not have appreciated the humor, but he would almost certainly have accepted the apology...