Word: painful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before a competent reading of Peter Mennin's Canzona and the concluding Ten Thousand Men of Harvard the band tackled a parvum opus of Anton Bruckner: the March in Eb, "originally for street band," as Walker announced with pain. The thing never should have been arranged for modern band, and HUB was roundly hissed for it--and hissed back, according to tradition...
...British diplomats decided, however, to withhold the information from Stalin in order to spare him any personal pain. It was a gentlemanly thing to do; but Stalin had never had much use for his sensitive and with drawn son. He hounded and beat the boy so unmercifully that in the Kremlin one night in the late 1920s, Yakov tried to shoot himself. He only managed to inflict a serious head wound, and Stalin afterward taunted him that he was incapable even of killing himself. It might have impressed the old man to know that his son finally mustered the courage...
...juxtaposition of the horrifying and the hilarious forms part of the common round of existence-and of this startling play. British Writer Peter Nichols constructs a comedy of anguish, extracting laughter from the uncomic plight and blistering pain of two parents (Albert Finney and Zena Walker) whose ten-year-old daughter is a spastic...
Whatever the exercise, the experts agree that it must be consistent-not just for weeks or months or years, but for life. In a familiar pattern, many Americans start by doing too much in the mistaken hope of doing better. Exercise should lead to exhilaration, not to exhaustion or pain. Back aches, slipped disks and lumbago can affect people who overdo the famous Royal Canadian Air Force exercises. Even joggers can ask for trouble. "The distance some of them go scares me," says Dr. Richard Morrison, who presides over a heart-conditioning program for West Coast executives. "Long distances...
...tendency of today's singers to avoid urging anything on the listener, but to try to embody an emotional state that makes its point indirectly. California's Tim Buckley, 21, says that he prefers to sing for audiences who "just want to feel someone's pain and happiness." And like most of his colleagues, he is confident that, as he intones in the Larry Beckett lyric for The Magician...