Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neat counterpoint, got the tune hurled at them forwards, backwards, upsidedown, finally lost themselves in the fugue which ended up sounding like a CzechoSlovakian polka. In the score, when the English tune .went backwards, Composer Weinberger had carefully labeled it with the Latin words More Hebraeorum (in the Hebrew manner)* with the explanation: THGIR EHT MORF DAER ESAELP TFEL...
...great Jascha, he plays fast, plays slow, plays alone, and plays with orchestra. He is called on for almost no acting, which seems a shame, for he has a very pleasant manner. With his $70,000 Stradivarins tucked firmly under his chin, Heifetz produces a kind of beauty that puts this movie in a class by itself...
...heard him again last week, and can remember few times when I have had as much fun. The six guys in Fats' band make more music than most of the big bands ever think of making. Eugene Cedric on tenor plays solos that rampage in much the same manner that Chu Berry's do. Everybody else, including Herman Autrey on trumpet, is just as good...
Peace is mainly something to argue about at America's Town Meeting of the Air. For the last four years this program, Radio's No. 1 public forum, has provided weekly October-to-May battles on all manner of current topics, with headliners (Ickes, Eleanor Roosevelt, Earl Browder, Wendell Willkie, etc.) in the main bouts, and audiences winding up each week's card with a free...
...various elements which have been brought together in Fogg Museum, may, at first glance, seem unrelated. They do, however, form an unified program for the purposes of vagabonding. They are joined to one another in the contrapuntal manner which characterizes a Dos Passos novel. Chronology, in the traditional sense of the word, is distorted; seemingly insignificant details are accentuated and blossom forth in their true colors to capture the imagination of the curious person. It is possible for one to find, in these many types of art now on exhibit, that diversity of kind and opposition of approach which...