Word: pouring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Conversation. The first première, a Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, played by Benny Goodman and Leonard Bernstein, had the misfortune of being the marquee come-on for an all-Poulenc concert that included some vintage works-the beautiful Fiançailles pour Rire song cycle, the lovely a cappella Motets. The sonata's first movement is nervously melodic, the second drowsily romantic, the third merely gymnastic; nowhere does the music lead the two instruments into the tense conversation the form requires. The piano simply accompanies the clarinet, as in a coloratura song, and the clarinet does little...
...their tickets or their programs, at 8:00 or 8:30 in trooped the opening-nightdress: grim. Two hours later they streamed out: smiling. The G & S Sorcerer cast a spell on them, from the start: "Forget your notes of mournful lay," the chorus commanded, "and from your throats pour joy today." All obeyed...
...although recent direct military participation by U.S. advisors has temporarily stemmed a fairly steady increase in Viet Cong strength, political conditions in South Vietnam remain unstable. They will continue to be unstable even if the United States is willing to pour money and men into this area for decades and to keep large portions of the population under constant military guard. To achieve any kind of lasting peace, there would have to be major political and economic reforms...
...cities where he wrote his Epistles. Some were first-class, using classical Greek, balancing every sentence with the copious use of kais. Others were third-rate and knew only the koine kais, which have as much meaning as our colloquial ands. So kais are the most unreliable "figures" to pour into a computer...
Many of these juvenile criminals hatch in a school system that one educator has labeled "a case of studied neglect." Into Washington's overcrowded school's each year pour 7,000 new students-95% of them Negroes. At Pierce school, a 69-year-old brick building with patched walls, peeling paint, and wrapping paper for window shades, nearly 400 students go to school in classrooms built for 280. On the third floor of Hine school (nicknamed "Horrible Hine"), litter and debris from a 1959 fire have yet to be cleaned up. The city's school dropout rate...