Word: poignant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Debussy: Trois Chansons de Bilitis; Ravel: Chansons Madécasses (Jennie Tourel, mezzo-soprano; Columbia, 2 sides LP). An accomplished artist gives a six-song lesson in how to sing French. Debussy's love songs are poignant; Ravel's are sensual. Recording: excellent...
Keats's letters are among the best in the language; they move toward a poignant climax as the young poet, his powers barely glimpsed, realizes that he will die young (tuberculosis killed him at the age of 25). That Keats was a full-blooded man as well as a literary genius is the main impression left by this collection, for which Lionel Trilling (The Middle of the Journey; The Liberal Imagination) has written a sparkling introduction...
Last week it looked as though the song might have been an error instead of a hit. Leathery-faced Guy Howard, 59, who wrote a poignant book, Walkin' Preacher of the Ozarks (TIME, Nov. 20, 1944), about his itinerant evangelism in the mountains, had heard the song and gone to law about it. The piece, he charged, was a "burlesque on me and maligns my work and Christianity." In St. Louis federal court, Evangelist Howard asked $1,000,000 damages from RCA Victor, Decca and Capitol record companies...
...result is a timely, poignant film that cannot be shown in Russia; the Moscow delegates to the Cannes Film Festival in April protested that it was unfriendly to them. Yet it represents the Russian member (Yoseph Yadin) of the jeep patrol as a man no less fundamentally decent than the other three, implies strongly that the West's quarrel is not with the Russian people but with their rulers. Indeed, because the Russian M.P. is the creature of an inflexible system, he feels an inner conflict that makes him the most striking of the four and, in a sense...
...opening Bach Sonata certainly cannot be considered among that composer's greatest works. Aside from the poignant Adagio, it's all pretty dull. There is none of the depth and vitality for which Bach's keyboard works are so noted, and the piece did not project very well via the medium of two grand pianos...