Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than Prokofiev's. When the Prokofiev version (second suite, opus 64) begins, it comes as quite a shock. The very extremes of range and timbre are called for, and once again the orchestra responded well. All the solo playing was very good, particularly from flute, harp, piano, and saxophone. Pitch was excellent, including the bizarre but effective ending with contrabassoon and piccoio...
...classic protectionist line-that imports must be restricted in order to keep foreign products turned out by low-wage labor from bumping Americans out of jobs-is still the basic emotional pitch. Protectionists, however, have also developed a more intellectual position. Its essence is that the free-trade gospel is out of touch with the competitive reality of today's world economy...
...making a sales pitch for his product, lean, scholarly Joseph Chamberlain Wilson once quoted in Latin a homily from a Montaigne essay: Fortis imaginatio general casum (A strong imagination begets the event). In his own case, it took twelve years of imagining the possibilities of an obscure invention for any historic event to occur, but the result was one of the most successful single products ever put on sale: the Xerox machine. By the time he died of a heart attack last week at the age of 61, while lunching in Manhattan with Nelson and Happy Rockefeller, Wilson had turned...
...golly-gee pitch is deceiving. To the team owners who must negotiate with him, he is the original Woolf at the door. Boston Celtics General Manager Red Auerbach, for one, swore that he would never meet with a sport lawyer -until Woolf appeared with nine of the twelve Celtic players as his clients. Now, after Woolf wangled deals like a $500,000, three-year contract for Forward John Havlicek, Auerbach admits "Woolf has helped a lot of players...
...stayed at the White House]; it was just a thrill to hear J. Edgar Hoover breathing." Then the President sounded the theme that is going to be emphasized throughout the campaign: "Peace in Our Generation." But peace with honor. America, Nixon warned, must stay strong. He made a pitch for his domestic programs: revenue sharing, welfare reform, Government reorganization. "They are historic. They are revolutionary." He returned to a subject that is obviously worrying him: his feeling that America may go downhill, like past civilizations, because of a failure of nerve and will. "They turned away from greatness. They grew...