Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freedom from the discipline of a permanent conductor, has nurtured a strong streak of independence. "If the orchestra has any shortcomings," explains Mehta, "it is in its tendency toward musical anarchy. At rehearsals you suddenly find yourself in the middle of a brain trust over how a phrase should be played. Everyone has a suggestion, and everyone thinks that the way he played it back in Poland is the only way." In addition, the parade of guest conductors has turned the players into musical chameleons, denied them a distinctive style that they can call their own. Says one flutist: "Under...
...operative phrase seems to be "suggestive movements." In short, by harking back to what is actually a rather old measure of lewdness, the court ruled that topless female dancers are legal, at least if they don't wiggle...
Student protest was far from the only topic on commencement speakers' minds, and for every dose of Nytol administered by a dull orator, someone else delivered No Doz in the form of a fresh phrase or a sprightly idea. Some of the best...
...plans which the public had never seen. They knew that as the conference progressed and weeks were spent cabling back and forth between Moscow and Washington on the diction and punctuation of the document, something was being formed that was much more definite and binding than the phrase 'preliminary and exploratory' indicated...
Each of the three Democrats is convinced that he can defeat New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller ("the rich man's millionaire," in Samuels' phrase) in his bid for a third term in November. One of their problems is that New York has no primary for statewide office. The nominee is picked by party convention-a tidy arrangement if a party is united and well organized, a shambles if it is not. In New York, it is not. The Democrats are still hurting from the feuding and weak tickets that marked their 1958 and 1962 conventions...