Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...giving more men a chance to play. Except for Red Connolly and Ira Godin, any of Dolph Samborski's pitchers might take the mound for the Jayvees. Barry Turner will probably pitch some Jayvee games although pitching is not one of Harper's chief worries at the moment...
...every free citizen would have found easy to meet . . . We know that dictatorship can be beaten only by meeting it before it begins. That is why we are willing to risk everything today .. . But we solemnly warn every democratic citizen of the free world of the urgency of this moment when he must make a good and a clear decision. Otherwise, Berlin will be lost, with only a diplomatic protest as an after-echo." (At the end, the Russian officer is angrily rocking the empty chair beside him back & forth-as if with difficulty repressing an impulse to throw...
...answer is that there is much more to conducting than just keeping time; though even keeping time in a complicated score isn't always easy. At any given moment the flute player or the violinist is concerned only with his own note, which the conductor must blend-in time and volume-with the playing of 100 others. And while concentrating on the notes being played at any given moment, the conductor must also have one part of his mind listening to the entire piece. He must be on guard not to exhaust prematurely, in a too early climax...
...Said Verdi: "I was afraid it would be exaggerated." Said Giacomo Puccini of Toscanini, who had conducted the world premiere of his La Boheme: "Toscanini conducts a work not just as the written score directs, but as the composer had imagined it, though his hand failed him when the moment came to write down what he heard so clearly in his head...
Life's Darkest Moment...