Word: mellower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...odyssey of the American spirit reached a new height. Up on Capitol Hill, there was a town meeting of this nation, perhaps the first like it in our history. All three branches of our Government were at work. So were the people, looking, listening, talking and singing in the mellow summer nights with the great Capitol dome glowing above...
...authorship in a pseudonym. This transcription is unsigned, but it carries the unmistakable stamp of the master. No one but Brahms would have dared change the key, Starker points out - an inspired musical per mutation that illuminates the cello's lower register and exploits the instrument's mellow color and timbre. The composer also made some 200 alterations, mostly minor, in the score which he probably recast for his friend, the eminent 19th century cellist Robert Hausmann. At the end of the second movement Brahms added a section for the cello and switched a violin part...
...stars of Russia glowed from the high spires of the Kremlin towers in the mellow night, casting a special spell over the three Americans so far from home who by themselves were shaping the U.S. position in an uncertain world...
...that their day had finally come. But the erstwhile University of Wisconsin radical lost little time in setting his supporters straight. Climbing onto a stage during a ball celebrating his inaugural, the long-haired, mustachioed Soglin stripped off his dress shirt to reveal a T shirt bearing the legend MELLOW MAN. Said Soglin: "It's going to take those mellow men and mellow women to put this city together in the next two years...
...found that he goes through cycles of depression, then rises again with humor and a basic faith in the system. Sometimes the hearings go on into the night. At the dinner break he gets into a car with an aide and they put the windows down and drive through mellow Washington nights talking about it all, stop for Colonel Sanders chicken and root beer, hurry back to the hearing. When it is over, Mezvinsky rushes away from reporters and home to be alone with his ideas. His sleep is fitful. Often he will awake with an idea...