Word: precisionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conducer Thompson Stone added force and precision to a fervent chorus that was obviously enjoying itself immensely. Its exuberance brought out the utmost from Handel's skillful use of such words as "Surely," "Wonderful," or "Hallelujah." The orchestral accompaniment, revised first by Mozart and later by Robert Franz, was capably...
Counter-radar licked Japanese naval radar, but its toughest enemy was the enormous radar network the Nazis spread over Europe. German coastal radars watched for Allied ships and planes. Thousands of inland "Wurzburgs" (radars shaped like giant electric heaters) aimed the Nazis' antiaircraft guns with fiendish precision. If the...
His first (1913) look at the French moderns, says Davis, "gave me the same excitement I got from the numerical precision of the Negro piano players in the Newark saloons. I resolved that I would quite definitely have to become a 'modern' artist. It took an awful long...
In musical circles, the Boston Symphony owes its great reputation to precision playing and the persistent performance of new music. Koussevitzky's Beethoven has started numerous arguments; his Mozart is generally considered inferior to that of most reputable conductors. Russian music is his forte, and his Brahms is second only...
Bull-Necked Males. "The creature familiar as Superman is the leader of a swarm of satellites separated from him only by a copyright. Scores of comic books feature similar characters-for example, Catman, Bullet Man, The Human Torch, Captain Midnight, Captain Marvel, Black Terror, Blue Beetle, Green Lama, Yankee Boy...