Word: mellower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington, D.C., her voice was muted. Nearing any high note, she would look down. She bridled at suggestions that she had been tamed. "Mellowed," she snapped, "what is that? To mellow is to decay...
...wind players, the sackbut was mellow but distinct; it was very effective as part of the continuo at the end of the Magnificat. The recorders suffered from lapses of pitch endemic to the instrument (in the Ave maris stella), but recovered in the next movement. The three cornetto players overcame an instrument infamous for its difficulty. Their stunning passages of imitation in the Magnificat were the most impressive instrumental display of the evening...
...morning light Nixon was a realist. His trouble was the Republican trouble right now. He could understand the candidates staying clear of him. That was O.K. But they had better be careful. "If they jump on me too hard, the hard core [G.O.P.] may retaliate," he said. It was mellow, civilized and sensible talk, yet incomplete. There was no mention of possible impeachment...
Their lives had some of the character and texture of an oldfashioned, well-upholstered novel. It is James Mellow's achievement that he has told the story carefully and unpretentiously in clear, uncluttered prose. The evidence is that the first part was the best. When Miss Stein, the privately tutored daughter of a California stockbroker, first went to Europe in 1903, she encountered young painters-Picasso, Braque, Matisse. She and her brother Leo began buying their pictures and aggressively befriending them. She clipped The Katzenjammer Kids from home newspapers for Picasso. The famous Saturday open-house evenings began...
...Mellow has fine vignettes from the '20s and '30s. Francis Picabia, the rich, eccentric Cuban painter-owner of 100 autos in his lifetime-darts in and out of the narrative. "If you want clean ideas, you must change them as often as your shirts," he advised Gertrude. Her triumphant American tour in 1934 is a familiar story, but Mellow has new anecdotes, such as renting a You-Drive-Yourself car in Chicago because Gertrude was enchanted by the firm's name...