Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...emerged looking grim. At Knoxville's Coliseum, he tore into political critics of his poverty crusade. "Those who oppose us are determined. They have already, last week on the floor of the House of Representatives, called this war on poverty a cruel hoax. I first heard that phrase in the 1936 campaign when they called social security a cruel hoax...
...members of PBK, election means "recognition of intellectual capacities well employed, especially in the acquiring of an education in the liberal arts and sciences." Instructions to the electors interpert "intellectual capacities well employed" more narrowly as "scholarship." "Good character" is also relevant (PBK presumably excludes outright criminals), but the phrase "achievement in extracurricular activities" is an anathema...
...GLORY OF CREMONA (Decca). For an elaborate and instructive violin lesson, Ruggiero Ricci collected $750,000 worth of great instruments, including six Stradivarii and five Guarnerii. To show their differences, Ricci plays on each the same short phrase from Bruch. To bring out their beauty, he plays on each a different short piece (Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, Paganini, Handel, Brahms). "The more output and resource an instrument has," Ricci says, "the more difficult it is to handle." He proves that he can handle them all, but like Heifetz and Stern, he favors the Guarnerii, capable of more bite and passion than...
Elliot Forbes had obviously worked hard on dynamics for all the works on the program. In "Deutsches Magnificat," by Heinrich Schutz, he established a different mood for each phrase, and built up a gradual, carefully controlled crescendo for the piece's final cadence. Forbes made Hans Hassler's distressful, chromatic motet very convincing with sudden pianissimo phrases; the words were never blurred when the chorus sang softly...
...your head were turned to those green and white fireworks in the sky. Up and down, black and light, for about a half hour; clinging to the rail. Life and art are supposed to imitate one another; I remember reading a story that ended in a graveyard with the phrase, "This is really living...