Word: quavering
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...they are a skein when in flight, I don't know what they are on a plate, minced). More likely, it would have been wise to invent a term--a mouthwatering of pates when they're good, a sclerosis when they're not. As for sopranos, Lipton suggests a quaver of coluraturas and, behind them, a schrei of heldentenoren...
...Seismic Quaver. Whatever buildup eventually results, it will only represent progress toward the force levels long ago set out for NATO, and never achieved. The new concerns are not causing any genuine enlargement of the organization's military muscle. A far more difficult task confronting the ministers and the commanders is what to do if the men in Moscow decide to invade yet another socialist country like Rumania or Yugoslavia. The West has a bad conscience about Czechoslovakia, feeling that somehow, somewhere along the line leading to Aug. 21, some pressure might have been exerted to dissuade the Soviets...
...planners have had three months to devise a counter for future Soviet moves, but not all of the thinking was productive. U.S. planners even dusted off an old scheme to fire a controlled nuclear explosion as a warning. Where? Why inside allied territory, of course. Presumably the seismic quaver on Russian monitoring instruments would bring Soviet tanks to a shuddering halt. There were, however, no volunteers for the territory to be used for this backyard bomb. Equally unimpressive was the suggestion to fire a nuclear warning shot at sea, a latter-day version of the old shot-across...
Methodical violin playing, too many moments of imprecise ensemble, and a lack of metrical relaxation, especially in detached quaver figures, severely qualified the final work, Mozart's Symphony No. 29. I think that this was primarily due to simple orchestral fatigue after an especially strenuous program. The Andante, however, was played with considerable feeling. The primary problems of the orchestra in this work and throughout the concert were essentially a lack of stylistic homogeneity within the violin section, insufficient attention to phrasing and a peculiar inability to play a genuine piano. Each of the orchestra's winds performed admirably...
Meanwhile, ABC signed Nightclub Comic Joey Bishop as host of a copycat show opposite Tonight, but Bishop is being clobbered in the ratings by nearly 3 to 1. The even newer syndicated Las Vegas Show with Bill Dana scarcely excites a quaver on the Nielsen meters. Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. has two talk-variety entries-Mike Douglas in 142 cities, Merv Griffin in 90. But Carson is considered so formidable that Griffin opposes him head-on in only one market, New York City, while Douglas is programmed nowhere after...