Word: kneed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among modern imitations of classicism, Prokofieff's Classical Symphony has received wide praise. To me it seems a weak-kneed, rather precious imitation of Haydn in modern harmonics. Probably it is somewhat satiric; still it is a good example of the failure of modern composers to recreate in twentieth-century dress the music of the eighteenth century. The spark which lit up the formal pattern of a classical symphony cannot be recaptured merely by reproducing the exteriors. Something else, whatever it is that makes any music great, must also be there...
...Negro policeman whom Steve Early kneed was the father of five children. He had been cited for bravery. He had returned to duty three months before, after an operation for hernia. And when the incident occurred, no one knew which way the Negro vote would go. Manhattan newspapers published guarded interviews* with Patrolman Sloan, invalided to bed, in which he said that he had been kicked, that he felt terrible, and that he had been ordered not to talk. In Washington Steve Early denied that he had kicked a cop, admitted he had "given him the knee." Harlem...
...burlesque with something more than amusement was Jack Dempsey. Only the night before, the onetime world's champion, who had earned some $5,000,000 in the ring, had started a pugilistic "comeback" at 45. In Atlanta, during two rounds of roughhouse scrapping that left him wobbly-kneed, he had knocked out of the ring one Cowboy Luttrell, a fat, 34-year-old wrestler who had taken a poke at him during a wrestling match which he refereed last spring...
...Harry Lauder, 69, was back in the U. S. But not in person, on film. Said he: "A wee bit o' celluloid crosses the ocean just as fast and at ha' the price." On celluloid, Sir Harry in his first talking picture, a weak-kneed melodrama, played the trouping grandfather of a motherless baby. Grandfather spends most of his time and money keeping the child away from its no-good father. Minus the bagpipers, Sir Harry Lauder stamped around with his crooked stick, sang The End o' the Road, We A' Go Hame the Same...
...pants, listened to Eugene Ormandy rehearsing the Philadelphia Orchestra in Jean Sibelius' surging Finlandia. Much moved, Finn Heimo Haitto (pronounced hay-moe high-toe) sat down and wrote his good friend Sibelius all about it. Last week the boy had more to tell the old composer. Again bare-kneed, and sailorcollared, Heimo Haitto tucked a Guarnerius fiddle under his beardless chin, made his bigtime U. S. debut with Ormandy and the orchestra in the plushy Academy of Music. Critics liked his easy, self-assured playing, could well believe that Sibelius had said of him: "This youngster will carry...