Word: lush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...century successive composers, each with a slightly more fiendish glint in his eye, have produced choral music that was less and less vocal, melodic, even singable; Thompson has maintained a style of choral writing distinctly congenial to the human voice. For there is more to his music than the lush harmonic changes and expressive dynamics; Thompson is fun to sing...
What texts! Thompson chooses his texts with the care of a sculptor choosing his stone, a calligrapher his nib. His settings of three Horatian odes sound fresh after 41 years: one wonders how those dissonances and lush chromaticisms (which have since become less frequent in Thompson's music) struck listeners in the twenties...
...played opposite Jason Robards in the 1958 Broadway production of The Disenchanted. The British-born, India-reared actress stars in War and Peace and Judith, plays Violet in Man and Superman at alternate performances, and she has left her mark. Her throaty, caressing voice purrs its way through her lush figure and emerges with girlish guilelessness from Natasha and passionate intensity from Judith, all the while giving the impression that it never really changed...
...good light. Kemal Atatürk emerges as a political genius immingled with a moral moron, a man with the intellect of a Western liberal and the disposition of an Oriental despot, a loving father to his country all day long, but after sunset a dedicated lecher and incorrigible lush...
...west-coast countries, honors-of all people-Bernardo O'Higgins as its first President, and has a long history of constitutional government. Nevertheless, the country's 8,200,000 people, 66% of them part Indian, have never been able to feed themselves; their country, for all the lush wheat-and wine-growing valleys, is still mostly desert and mountain that do not produce enough food for the soaring population. Like Peru's Belaunde, Chile's new President Eduardo Frei offers a vast reform program, including a landmark partnership with three U.S. companies to double copper production...