Word: lyrically
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Exaltation. The Russians dote on the image of agonized exaltation that Van presents at the keyboard. He usually stares before him, his head tilted back at a 45-degree angle, his body leaning far back from the keys. In lyric passages he shakes his head from side to side in a kind of slow frenzy at the grip of the music upon him. In the more fiery passages he crouches close over the keys, his face scowling, his elbows jutting far behind him, like the legs of a praying mantis. When the orchestra is playing alone, he eyes the conductor...
...cornerstone, visited a sugar mill. Relaxing one night at a private calypso party, she watched in awe as nimble "limbo" dancers wriggled under a ten-inch-high bar without touching the floor with their hands, showed no reaction (although officials blanched) when a calypso singer, in an improvised lyric, referred to her broken romance with R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend. At week's end she flew off for ten days in Tobago, British Guiana and British Honduras. Behind her, in Trinidad, Prime Minister Adams dug into the knotty problems-including overpopulation, unemployment, tariff and migration barriers within the islands...
...swing lightly and flexibly through Topsy Theme, Gone With the Wind and other numbers with the air of men with their hearts in their horns, but in their cooler moments (Relax, Blue Moon) they sometimes seem about to fade off the record. Alto Saxophonist Domnerus wanders through some seamless lyric flights translated from Charlie Parker's and Benny Carter's books...
...last lower level German course proposed, German 137, "Lyric Poetry and Prose Fiction of the Nineteenth Century," will deal with interpretations of the poetry of Heine, Morike, Keller, and Fontaine...
...great moment of the opera is unquestionably the superb quartet which comes near the end, and is everything an operatic ensemble ought to be. Technically, it is well constructed, while the hilarity of the situation combines with the very lyric beauty of the music to produce a kind of exhilaration which can only come in a climax to an extremely fine set piece...