Word: organisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chinese, Russian and Nigerian governments agree that ruthless action is necessary. For these kids, brought from their homelands around the globe for scientific study, are extraordinary beings. Evil-eyed, they can will adults to do their bidding, even to commit murder and suicide. They can charge a dilapidated organ with such high-decibel energy that it becomes a ghastly weapon against their would-be assassins. Anything that one of the six sees, hears or reads is, on the instant, telepathically absorbed by the others. "Do you still want to take them to your embassies?" asks a wry observer...
...Eugene Ormandy, plays Bach with a flourish and sensuality better saved for Wagner; the other side, which at its extreme is manned by cliques of musical pedants who play in ensembles with names like Pro Arta Antarctica, believes Bach must never be played away from the harpsichord and organ. In the artistic center of the interpretive storm are a number of impeccably good pianists who play Bach's music better than it has been played since Mendelssohn resurrected the St. Matthew Passion in 1829. The best of these are Rosalyn Tureck and Glenn Gould...
...Weimar Bach found an artistic guide in the music of Vivaldi. For nine years he studiously copied Vivaldi violin concertos and arranged them for organ and clavier. He also wrote fugues based on themes by lesser Italian composers-Corelli, Legrenzi, Albinoni-and gained a fresh sense of line-the ability to say large things with an economy and clarity that his baroque predecessors had never been able to achieve...
...Bach's creations is that they quite simply made the practice of music more perfect than it had ever been before, or has been since. "You have only to hit the right notes at the right time and the instrument plays itself," Bach told his students of the organ, giving a rare expression to the credo of simplicity that makes his music now seem blindingly pure. Through his work there runs a thread of such subtlety and daring, such piety, passion and genius that the musical world stands before it-as Mendelssohn once did-in a "reverie of wonder...
...average American, liver is for wurst. But to 47.6 million Frenchmen, le foie - when it is not gras - is the precious, pesky organ that regulates their lives. When a Frenchman exclaims, "Mon foie!", his cry from the gland wins instant sympathy, even in a Place de la Concorde traffic jam. Depending on whether it is swollen, too hard, too tender, congested, enrheumed or, as the French say, "intoxicated" from a surfeit of rich food, the liver is blamed for virtually every physical malfunction from ingrown toenails to inadequate amatory performance...