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For Swarowsky, conducting is "the art of the little movement," and the wrist-not the arm-is the key. Since most young conductors tend to weave and wave like hysterical herons, he takes drastic steps to restrict them to wrist movements. In practice sessions with the Academy's student...
The master caricaturist often made himself a subject, and his distinctively blunt features can be seen in many of his paintings and drawings. But his second presence in The Family of Charles IV gives ironical depth to an already profound picture. By stripping away his own mask of detachment and...
The whole first side is saturated with sophisticated wee bits--not preciosities, but highly significant sound gags and word plays. In the writing, there are devices such as the Joycean double entendre, achieved by leaving out punctuation, in the line "And it really doesn't matter if/ I'm wrong...
Sir: Having just read the interesting Essay on sex education in the U.S. [June 9], I cannot suppress an ironical snigger at the spectacle of a highly rational society indulging in such magical thinking as to suppose that, having drawn a diagram of a tiger on the blackboard, the teacher...
Even though Saud had refrained from any political statements until last week, Feisal cut off Saud's princely pension as soon as he arrived in Egypt and embraced Nasser. His three-day triumphal "state visit" to Yemen was all the more ironical because it was Saud who in 1962...