Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orchestra had a mellower, thicker tone than its great U.S. colleagues. Its string section sounded as sweet and intimate as a string quartet, its winds included a solo flute and solo oboe of melting beauty, and its brasses played with a polished but slightly lethargic quality. Conductor von Karajan, lean and dapper, planted his feet firmly, took a stance with elbows bent as if carrying an invisible basket of flowers. His style was mannered-in his most ardent moments he bent stiffly from the waist and closed his eyes-and he gave the impression of overseeing the music rather than...
...Some people are born to spend their lives catching up; and they are as a rule the passionate ones." The aphorism is a lean and literary fugitive that flourished most elegantly in the salons of France's ancien regime. The mere fact of its reappearance on the San Francisco docks makes this book noteworthy...
...innocent women and children." Down went Reed's fist, papers and pencils flew helter-skelter, and Noah Mason chortled. Mississippi's Colmer, in an artistic piece of understatement, remarked to Reed: "Well, I take it you're opposed to the bill?" Reed replied in kind: "I lean that way." Noah Mason, who knew that Reed was as bitterly opposed to the bill as he, doubled over in laughter, nearly fell off his chair...
...auto workers reason that a guaranteed annual wage would put a curb on "irresponsible production scheduling," make employment even through the year. To keep sales constant, U.A.W. would like the auto industry to give dealers more incentive (i.e., greater profits) to sell cars in the normally lean winter months, less for summertime sales. After all, argues the union, most auto executives and white-collar workers have what amounts to a guaranteed annual wage. Why not one for the production-line employees...
...proletarian-school" painter. Shahn grew up to startle the art world with a series of watercolors, almost as beautiful as they were bitter, based on the Sacco-Vanzetti case. He became perhaps the best, and most depressing, painter of the Great Depression. Shahn's "havenots" were lean as greyhounds and sad-eyed as spaniels; his "haves" always looked as if they had had too much...