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...Greatness. Despite his rapport with students, Young is far from being a pliant tool of protesters. During one heated, profanity-filled meeting with some student rebels, he suddenly snapped: "I don't have to listen to that kind of language" and walked out. Quick in temper, Young is also quick to clamp down on undergraduate activities that go too far. After a fraternity held a party that barred Negroes and Mexican Americans, Young suspended it from the campus. In the face of a massive student revolt, he says, "I wouldn't hesitate a moment to call...
Nabokov lingers over the coincidence of the encounter, but his timing is nearly perfect. By drawing it out, he sharpens the anticipation of the impending adultery; before long, Martha, the frosty doll, and Franz, promoted from lifeless lump to "warm and pliant wax," can't get enough of each other...
...ranging for the most part from grey to basic black, was Von Karajan's own. The cast was handpicked, and the hand was his. He guided the Met's orchestra through what amounted to a graduate seminar on Wagnerian sonority, galvanizing that frequently scraggly ensemble into a pliant, rich tonal fabric...
...Vienna Philharmonic sound is that of an idealized chamber ensemble, a creamy, homogeneous, pliant blend of wind, brass and string tone that hovers in the air. Trumpeter Helmut Wobisch, the orchestra's manager, ascribes the sound in part to the peculiar nature of Vienna's brass instruments, wider in bore than those used in Ameri can, French and British ensembles, and handmade of exceptionally thin metal, producing a blendable tone without the usual cutting edge...
...formula for a contemporary spy thriller almost always starts off with a supply of beautiful, pliant women. Crafty agents of a world conspiracy have to put in an appearance, and then, in varying combinations, there are likely to be urban vignettes from Copenhagen to Washington to Havana, stolen state papers, harried Red defectors, ominous confrontations between great powers. Finally, a suave but implacable intelligence officer can be counted on to save the West from its own follies...