Word: lingers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special American reaction: the U.S. takes deep pride in its technical skills and technological prowess, in its ability to get things done-first. Now, despite all the rational explanations, there was a sudden, sharp national disappointment that Americans had been outshone by the Red moon. The disappointment would linger until the U.S. no longer stood second best in the conquest of space...
...songs, several of which she originally introduced in Trenton, N.J." Thus Columbia Records several weeks ago launched a new pianist-singer team on an album entitled The Piano Artistry of Jonathan Edwards, currently the liveliest sleeper on the market. In the album's cover picture, two right hands linger over the keyboard, but the unwary buyer who fails to catch this subtle warning is in for an ear-jolting shock...
...writes : "No European woman had ever played the same part in my life." Another Age. The distinguishing qual ity of French colonialism was its lack of racial prejudice. But the war in Indo-China already belongs to another age, and in the once-prized colony, only a few French linger today. Corporal Riesen barely had time to write his book and to enjoy the fruits of his Croix de la V ail lance Vietnamienne, with palm, before he was sent off to crumbling Algeria. There, last December, his devotion to La Patrie led him to death in an Arab ambush...
...drawers and roommates are leaving for Europe, when the libraries are still and the dining halls are empty, when crushed beer cans dot the riverside and old sneakers lie about the hallways, and when the rooms are empty and Harvard becomes more hollow than ever, some sounds and questions linger...
...soloist in the next work, Liszt's Piano Concerto in E. With his big tone and sure technique, Lubow was in full control of the brilliant Liszt idiom. Fortissimo octaves boomed and cadenzas scintillated with the appropriate spice and dash. Lubow has one disturbing mannerism, however--he will linger on an appogiatura until the suspense becomes unbearable and the note of resolution is given up forever as lost. The orchestra, which seemed to revel in the bacchanalian decadance of the music, gave the pianist all the support he needed...