Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subconscious endeavor to paint a jumble of spermatozoa, probably of bovine origin. He must have seen these animalcules under the microscope or in a picture at one time. That past experience in the subconscious mind of the artist has forced him to splurge them on canvas at a moment of "high tension." If there has been any disintegration, it has been in the painting of many abnormal forms, microcephalic (small-headed), acephalic (headless), atrichous (tailless) spermatozoa with a few typical specimens...
...little boy clutching the cross was Dean Acheson, who came to believe in a number of things: in having a good time, in the importance of Scroll & Key at Yale, in Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, in Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. But at the moment he believed chiefly in God and in Father. Father was the rector of the Holy Trinity Church...
...highlight of the evening for me was Allen Sapp's second Violin Sonata. The dry-tang texture of the first movement, caused by the conflict of harmonies between violin and piano, combines with the many melodies to give a very striking effect. Perhaps the finest moment in the piece comes in the carefully built-up climax of the second movement. Except for a few scattered parts, the writing throughout the Sonata is tight; the piece never seems too long for its contents. My only objection is to some of the bowing effects in the first movement, which don't really...
Hialeah race fans had not been sentimental enough to make him the favorite, but for one shining moment it looked as though he might come through. After lagging for half a mile behind horses that two years ago would only have been warmups for him, he began to cut his way through the pack. It was too late; the best he could do was third-and prize money...
Death of a Salesman (by Arthur Miller; produced by Kermit Bloomgarden & Walter Fried) had Broadway in a fever of excitement from the moment it drew out-of-town raves last month. Last week, on Broadway itself, it caused even greater excitement, drew even wilder raves-"superb," "majestic," "great," "a play to make history...