Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rarely had the men of the NBC Symphony seen their little Maestro in such high humor and fine fettle. Pink-cheeked and glowing after his vacation in Italy, the terrible-tempered 81-year-old had kind words or a joke for everyone at rehearsal. The Maestro had his one inevitable flare-up of the day, this time over the absence without leave of a couple of trumpeters. The guest pianist watched the little tantrum, then, turning towards his wife and friends in the studio, wigwagged his eyebrows and giggled. For the soloist was a man who calls Toscanini "Maestro...
Beethoven had completed the Eroica and the Fifth Symphonies as well as the Waldstein and Appassionnts when he turned to the composition of the three quartets sponsored by Count Rasoumowski. At the very beginning of the first, the change in the composer is apparent: a paradoxical humor later expressed in the Eighth Symphony and an increasing tendency to write for himself which culminated in the late piano sonatas...
...highly romantic reading of the slow movement sharply set-off the cheerful expression of the violin introducing the Russian theme of the last movement. The juxtaposition of the two moods is even clearer in the second quartet; an unusually long and searching adagio is followed by the rollicking humor of the jiggish last movement. Climaxing the whole series, the almost fugal finale of the third quartet presents complicated difficulties to the performers. Not without a little buzzing, the players carried...
Reports from Hanover yesterday indicated that the Indians' main effort of the day would occur shortly before game time. The exact nature of this coup is a well-kept secret, but it is understood that it will be engineered by members of The Jack O' Lantern, Dartmouth's humor magazine, with the financial backing of the Daily Dartmouth...
Many Christians are convinced that the finest Christian leader thus far produced by the 20th Century was William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury when he died in 1944. His faith, courage, wisdom, humor, leadership, humility-and holiness-made him the rare combination of a prelate who was also a prophet. Those who knew Temple will never forget him. For those who did not know him, there is now a fine full-length portrait: Dean F. A. Iremonger's official biography, William Temple (Oxford University Press; 663 pages; 25 shillings...