Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about his own children (see his Rainy Day} as any other man living. Nash does most of his writing, however, in the guise of a sensitive prune. He speaks for the cartoon 20th-century American male-the subway-ridden goofus whose personality is deeply engraved on his cigaret lighter, and whose most ambitious ethical concept is "if it's trite, it's right." Nash knows his American civilization, and he can write about it like an efficiency expert in baggy pants. His light verse is a remarkable rhetorical invention. Where McCord, a traditionalist, makes his words walk...
...symphony lightly and lyrically; Stock lays on it a heavy German hand. Stock's way of playing it is in the real Brahms tradition. It is the way Brahms himself played his symphonies. But whether or not Brahms knew what was good for Brahms is another matter, and the lighter, more flexible style seems to me to have more life. . . . Another Columbia recording offers the Venusberg music from Tannhaueser, whipped up a bit too violently, and rather flatly recorded, but not too bad for all that...
Baron von Thermann went to the German Embassy to stay with Ambassador Baron Wilhelm Albrecht von Schoen. Soon two other German diplomats arrived: Minister to Peru Dr. Eduard Willy Noebel and Minister to Bolivia Dr. Ernst Wendler. Then Baron von Thermann left Santiago, carrying a suitcase many pounds lighter...
...operas. ... I don't usually go too much for the heavy stuff unless this Lehmann is singing it. Then it's all right. . . . It's going to be pretty lonesome . . . won't be nobody to talk to. Traffic will be a hell of a lot lighter, though...
When last week began, the U. S. was worried about a bottleneck in magnesium -a metal invaluable, since it is one-third lighter than even aluminum, for lightweight airplane parts. At week's end the bottleneck was smashed. The way it was smashed was a lesson in speed. To a nation which needs speed above all else, it was proof that time is no obstacle to men of energy and purpose...