Word: impromptu
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...invention." Next day, at an impromptu press conference in an Albany airport hangar, Rocky himself implied that the whole story had been planted with the Daily News by New York's Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner. He called it "absurd and wishful thinking on the part of the Democratic boss." Then reporters asked him if he thought that his divorce would hurt him politically. "I don't think so," he said. Question: "Do you consider the divorce question nonpolitical?" The heated reply: "I certainly consider it a personal matter...
...been released by American firms. Columbia has hit upon the dubious practice of recording concert performances: Richter's Carnegie Hall recital of five Beethoven sonatas last year, and a performance in Sofia, Bulgaria of Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Mr. Richter's playing is not enchanced by an impromptu counterpoint of mid-winter colds, thumping tape-recorders, passing BMT trains (in the Carnegie Hall record), and strange, unidentifiable Eastern European noises (in the Sofia one). (The Beethoven recital is M2L 272; the Moussorgsky...
...implication was that serenades would be frowned upon in the future. The Dean Watson warned the Band before its trip to Philadelphia that he did not want any trouble, which the Band--rightly, it would seem--interpreted to mean that it was no longer permitted to play impromptu midnight concerts at colleges along...
...Reminiscent of Oxford's 17th century dean, Dr. John Fell, whose reputation survives in one lethal quotation. He once threatened Poet Thomas Brown with university expulsion, promised to rescind the order if Brown could deliver an impromptu translation of Martial's 32nd Epigram ("Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare; Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te"). Brown's translation...
...Their window frames were held in place by wooden thumbscrews, which permitted removal of the entire window for cleaning. Their meetings for worship were, like the Quakers', thrown open to the leading of the Spirit, without formal liturgy or ministry. Often they performed elaborate marches and dances, singing impromptu songs...