Word: perfectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yannatos' score, especially as interpreted by soprano Chloe Owen, exhibits perfect understanding of every line of the poem and an ability to transform this understanding into music. The audience stopped looking at the translation of the text during the first poem, but it continued to respond, with comprehension and laughter, to the music itself. The work is humorously, but thoughtfully, refreshing...
Miss. Owen's musical personality, expressed with restraint in the Yannatos work, blossomed in the Verdi Bolero, "Merce dilette, amiche." She sang the aria with perfect intonation and virtuosity, and the audience demanded that she repeat it. The second time around, Miss Owen was every inch the soprano. Flowers in hand, she sang to the audience, to the orchestra, to Yannatos and, quite possibly, to Verdi himself. She was obviously enjoying herself and her joy was contagious...
...that they could do more than entertain. They played Mahler's Fourth Symphony--a technically demanding, emotionally difficult work. The first movement was characterized by the precisely drawn contrast between the rich, sweeping romanticism of the strings and the sharp clarity of the brass and woodwinds. The orchestra demonstrated perfect control in responding to Yannatos' variation of tempo and dynamics...
Moreover, Russia is now presented with the perfect opportunity to prove that it is still boss in the Communist world. "While China only speaks loudly but can do very little, it is the Soviet Union who in actuality carries the big stick and is willing to use it on behalf of another Communist nation. In the end, the monolithic character of the Communist camp would be restored under the auspices of the Soviet Union. We are moving closer to that military confrontation which nobody wants but which nobody knows how to avoid...
...From an assemblage of such data the scientist constructs a hypothesis, a formula that expresses the relationships he finds." As soon as further observation shows that the working hypothesis is faulty, it is replaced by another which seems more nearly correct. "Fortunately, scientific endeavor does not have to be perfect to yield results. The magnificent structure of dynamics was based on a differential calculus that was, logically, full of holes." Kepler's laws explaining planetary motion were based on calculations now shown to be mere approximations. Even the Euclidean underpinnings of Newton's iron law of gravitation have...