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...response to the contrapuntal themes and development which ran through this piece. It is marked "moderately fast, with vigor," and the group really did plunge into the work. Mighty drum rolls vied for attention with the forceful brasses. But the following Andantino grazioso was not so dynamic, and the listless tones detracted somewhat from the verve of the first movement...
With 11 minutes left in the second stanza, Mlezcko slapped in her second score as the contest became a rout. At this point the Radcliffe attack increased its control of the listless Jumbo defense, while its hapless opponents failed to capitalize on the 'Cliffe's numerous defensive lapses...
Alabama's once feisty Governor George Wallace, who only four months ago was widely expected to enter the convention with some 500 combative delegates demanding a measure of blood for past slights, faded forlornly away in a listless six-minute speech that was barely audible. Yet one more time he railed against the "bureaucratic briefcase toters who ought to have their briefcases thrown into the Potomac River." Then Wallace was wheeled away to little applause as Peter Duchin's band fittingly played Alabamy Bound. (Never once during the convention did the band play Dixie. Georgia's Carter...
Carlos steadily gains self-confidence. In Franco's waning days, the royal heir designate led a listless life sailing off Mallorca, skiing in Granada, toying with his Nikons and snipping ceremonial ribbons. Today he is at the center of the political vortex and shows a clear and subtle understanding of the conflicting currents. The stream of ministerial cars passing through the gates of Zarzuela Palace, his residence northwest of Madrid, indicates that the King has clout where it counts. Significantly, Juan Carlos is using that clout to receive not only ministers but opposition leaders like Ruiz-Gimenez...
...eerie purgatory. The patients in the ward, says Heymann, sat "sunk in listless dejection" or "crawled about on their knees or stood on chairs and howled." Eventually transferred to a section for the less disturbed, Pound was allowed to see visitors for two hours a day. They came by the score: Thornton Wilder, Robert Lowell, Katherine Ann Porter, Archibald MacLeish, Marianne Moore, T.S. Eliot. During the last eleven years of Pound's commitment, America's most illustrious literary salon was conducted in a madhouse...