Word: marvelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what is mediocre for Rosen is still something of a marvel amid the scholarly turgidity and banal superlatives of most music critics. His prose is clear and elegant and his thoughts sharply focused. And through his intellectual gymnastics, he is able to convince his readers that, far from the cerebral monster of popular mythology, Arnold Schoenberg was a composer of uncompromising integrity who responded sincerely and successfully to the musical demands of his time. Perhaps Charles Rosen will bring him a small step closer to the general appreciation he merits...
...marvel at the aim of some sinners when given a stone...
...does not have the passion of Aretha Franklin, the slim chic of Diana Ross or the earthy sexuality of Tina Turner. But whether she comes in singing sassy, sly or riding on velvet, Gladys Knight is a marvel of emotional energy. Behind her the three Pips-Brother Merald and Cousins William Guest and Edward Patten-walk, run, shuffle, tap in staccato choreographic counterpoint. With a current NBC-TV summer variety series plus a pair of Grammy awards and a platinum and two gold albums in the past two years, Gladys Knight and the Pips are considered this year...
Poor old Mussorgsky: Rimsky-Korsakov doctored Boris Godunov almost beyond recognition, Stokowski mauled A Night on Bald Mountain, and now Tomita has repainted Pictures. It is a marvel that the original music has the strength to stand up to this kind of dilution, like a good Scotch to soda. Tomita's Pictures is no threat to Sviatoslav Richter's classic version of Mussorgsky's piano original, or the Toscanini interpretation of the expert Ravel orchestration. What Tomita does is pop art pure and simple. It is benevolent caricature, a funny-paper treatment of the classics for those...
...itself as the drive for profit and produces that great marvel, the self-regulating market. If consumers are free to spend their money any way they wish, and businessmen can compete uninhibitedly for their favor, then capital and labor will flow "naturally" (a favorite Smithian word) into the uses where they are most needed. If consumers want, say, more bread than is being produced, they will pay high prices and bakers will earn high profits. Those profits will lure investors to build more bakeries. If they wind up turning out more bread than consumers want to buy, prices and profits...