Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost all the seats in the Salle Gaveau were empty, but the atmosphere in the elegant Paris concert hall was tense. Behind the scenes, 38 nervous young men and women from a score of countries polished their bulky cellos, flexed their hands, and spat on calloused fingers. In the balcony sat 14 distinguished cellists, including France's Pierre Fournier, Britain's Sir John Barbirolli, Russia's Mstislav Rostropovich. It was the Concours International Pablo Casals 1957, organized to honor the great cellist, and it proved to be a surprisingly thrilling East-West match...
Lang did not appar too nervous over the prospects of what might happen should the rescuers run out of gas or come up with a flat tire. The Band plans a gala welcome for Page and Rinehardt when they return tomorrow...
That Left-Out Feeling. Even if the Russians should resist this temptation, the prospect of a U.S.-Soviet ICBM standoff gave Europeans a nervous, left-out feeling. "The two big boys," said an official of West Germany's Defense Ministry, "must in the very nature of the situation lift their eyes and look straight across at one another, not noticing the in-betweens like ourselves so much. The arrival of long-range rockets implies the devaluation of American bases abroad and hence the downgrading of places like Germany. As a concomitant, one must assume less interest in such suddenly...
Something Fishy. In Seattle, Zoo Veterinarian Dr. Kenneth Birkley went off to capture elusive, "very nervous" sea otters with a special weapon: tranquilizing pills...
...shades of green. For us it was a green pear-bang-in a red bowl. We wanted to shock the person who looked at the picture. Looking at one of Kirchners women-on-the-street pictures, he should feel an erotic sensation, or repulsion, in any case some strong nervous response. Looking at one of Schmidt-Rottluffs monumental, somber compositions, he was supposed to feel touched, moved, overwhelmed...