Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concerts at Lincoln Center's Philharmonic Hall, at least when Lenny conducted, were seldom less than a sellout. Although the orchestra could play dispiritedly for antipatico guest conductors, at its best it was the equal of any in the world. Proof was the power, sweep and controlled passion of last week's stunning performances of the Mahler Third. Balletic Leaps. Purists complained of Bernstein's balletic leaps and flamboyant podium style, but he used his showmanship to the Philharmonic's advantage. Thanks to his records and televised concerts, he made the orchestra almost as much...
...describes in an early novel the miraculous way in which a flat, abstract contrivance (in chess or art) can take on vitality and light: "Little by little, the pieces and squares began to come to life and exchange impressions. The crude might of the queen was transformed into refined power, restrained and directed by a system of sparkling levers; the pawns grew cleverer; the knights stepped forth with a Spanish caracole . . . Every creator is a plotter; and all the pieces impersonating his ideas on the board were here as conspirators and sorcerers...
...attributed to his art. He dismisses such suggestions with the same scorn that he once made use of when a clubwoman asked him what butterflies were for. Nevertheless, certain deductions can be drawn from Nabokov's writing. In Bend Sinister, he composed a picture of crude, lumpish evil-in-power, and he put Yeats' much quoted "rough beast" into a Bolshevik or Nazi Bethlehem. Thus Prospero-Nabokov always knew Caliban, whether he was known as Hitler or Stalin or by some other name...
...symbolized the Catholic church's struggles in Eastern Europe; of lung cancer; in Rome. Beran was appointed arch bishop of Prague in 1946 and ran head on into the Communists during their 1948 takeover of Czechoslovakia. For publicly protesting the infringement of religious freedom, he was shorn of power, imprisoned for 14 years, and eventually sent into exile. His death occurred during negotiations that might have led to his return to the country he loved...
...airlines' "youth fares," which allow passengers from twelve to 22 to fly for half fare on a standby basis or for two-thirds fare with a reserved seat. Prodded partly by ailing intercity bus lines, Present found the discount fares "unjustly discriminatory." He did not reckon with the power of American students when they feel it is they who have suffered the discrimination...