Word: leaner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...literature at the University of Berlin, and stuck it out. Stuart was not the only rebellious Irishman in town. Among his good friends were the Republican army leaders who felt sure they were riding the wave of the future. Gradually the wave ebbed and the certainty faded. Says a leaner, greyer Novelist Stuart, who now lives in Paris by choice: "Who could have suspected in 1939 that things would turn out the way they...
Sonatas for Unaccompanied Violin. music seems to grow leaner with the yeas. between two excellent performances of the superb Sonata No. 1, Alexander Schneider's (Mercury, 1 side LP) is for those who prefer a hardness of tone and a rather blunt forthrightness; Tossy Spivakovsky (Columbia, 1 side LP) plays with more beauty of tone and slightly softer phrasing. Violinist Joseph Szigeti (Columbia, 1 side LP) has no competition in his performance of Sonata No. 5 (or, on the other side, in the Concerto No. 1, with the New Friends of Music Orchestra, Fritz Stiedry conducting). Recordings: good...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 (the NBC Symphony, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 2 sides LP). Toscanini's music seems to grow leaner with the years. In this new performance, he has scalpeled away pounds of the bombast with which the "Eroica" is too often fattened out; what remains is clear, bone-clean, but still well-muscled. Recording: excellent...
Through the centuries, the hog has obligingly accommodated himself to man's changing tastes and needs. Refrigeration put an end to the small-boned, fat-heavy hogs; consumers wanted leaner meat. But hog farmers, working to breed their animal out of the barrel and into the icebox, soon found themselves in another fix: the big-boned hogs of the early 20th Century were shorter on fat all right, but their giant hams were sized to feed an army rather than a family, and they were stringy besides. After World War I, hog breeders went to work again and finally...
...farmer in the country around Florence select the most promising chick in his flock, raise it carefully until ready for marketing, and remit the proceeds to the party exchequer. While the choice Communist chick is being fattened, added Gino brightly, it might be nice to distinguish it from its leaner non-Communist brethren by tying around its neck a bright red ribbon...