Word: muscularly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lewin is far removed from the "tinkly" school of Mozart interpreters. His playing of the A Minor Sonata (K. 310) was bold and muscular. And though this, lacking grace and delicacy, may not be authentic Mozart, it impressed me as imaginative and original...
...nosed parson, and Jingle and Mrs. Leo Hunter and many others have a proper share in the fun, and Mr. Young has contrived a sort of affectionate final roundup in the Fleet Prison. There is an attractive cast, and John Burrell's direction is neither too muscular nor too quaint. However debatable a change in terms of the book, Mr. Pickwick constitutes a rather refreshing change in terms of Broadway...
...brief bow to military tradition, the doctor conceded that a naturally flat, muscular stomach is still the best of soldierly equipment. And the fellow with a "relaxed, obese, pendulous formation" should do something about it. Let the drill sergeants work...
Unwashed Democracy. Strong's mind was not brilliant. He wrote bigoted gibes at almost every racial group, but with muscular directness he chronicled the feverish, unpredictable growth of New York. He reported political meetings, flicking a patrician's flinty adjective at the "unwashed democracy." He graphically described the famous crimes of his day, the publicity feats of P. T. Barnum. the burning of New York's Crystal Palace, the laying of the Atlantic Cable...
...under way at Merck is designed to measure fatigue. A laboratory rat is placed in a tank of water, and with each stroke of a foreleg, he sets off a series of complex electronic devices to record his acceleration. From this, Merck scientists hope to learn more about muscular fatigue in general, and how it can be influenced by hormones. Beyond that, neither George Merck nor his 425 scientific and medical researchers can tell, and probably they would not if they could...