Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...highway, put-putting toward Vienna, was a motorcycle carrying Herman Reitman, well-known Viennese motorbike rider, and a woman companion, Katharina Grünhut. A light sedan going faster in the same direction came up from behind and apparently started to pass. Then inexplicably the vehicles swerved together, the motorcycle bounced off to the side of the road, where its two passengers lay groaning. A few passers-by ran up to them. The sedan braked to a stop farther down the road and the driver climbed out and walked back. Taking a hasty glance at the scene, he drew...
...finances." Cinema Minister I. G. Bolshakov was blamed for a 23-million-ruble loss in the first eight months of 1946 and for making "unsuccessful pictures which cannot be shown." Fisheries Minister A. A. Ishkov and his assistants were told to "put their business in order." The Ministry of Light Industry was attacked for producing only 37.9% of the stockings it should...
...burghers, with their starched ruffs, plump cheeks and fierce little beards, annoyed Rembrandt. They paid through the nose for his fine likenesses. Rembrandt had other ambitions than painting portraits: he was obsessed with a desire to portray light. When a Captain Banning Cocq went to him with a 1,600-florin (about $650) group portrait commission, Rembrandt pocketed the fee, and set about painting light, not likenesses...
Outside Vag stopped light-footedly through the crowd. The air and day were just right, he decided, and felt again the same old sense of excitement run through him. He looked at his watch again. Ten-five; two hours and ten minutes before he was to meet his date. Vag narrowly avoided careening into two horn-rimmed students standing in front of Sever, and looked briefly at a pair of Radcliffe legs on their way into Emerson. Two hours. Time to pick up the makings of the after-game party, shave, and get the room into shape. He hoped vaguely...
Koussevitzky's reading of Brahm's First Symphony, which concluded the program, was a decided improvement and salvaged the afternoon. The conductor's accelerations and retardations are easily forgiven in light of his exciting treatment of this familiar work. As in all his performances of Brahms Koussevitzky strives for a cumulative emotional effect through the music and ignores the niceties of the traditional Classic approach. Although liberties are taken with tempi and choir prominence, Koussevitzky's Brahms is a good answer to those who insist that the German master is academic and intellectual. Brahms was warm-blooded and extrovert Sunday...