Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about it that commands attention. Something is being said that is worth listening to, particularly in the faster movements, where brilliant figurations and subtle rhythms sustain a motion that has few lapses. The slower sections are less interesting, the Larghetto being the least successful of the movements. The Andantino, quiet and comparatively consonant, is sometimes a little too sweet and sometimes a bit irrelevant. On the whole, though, the Sonata in E-flat has sincerity and strength...
...midst of it all and far removed from the madding and maddened crowds, Tito and his host, Premier Guy Mollet, found time for some quiet talk. Together they agreed on the necessity for disarmament and the necessity to maintain a wary attitude toward Russia in spite of its new face. Tito also expressed to his host a hope for "a liberal solution of the Algerian problem," which was considered a most tactful thing to say at this moment...
...Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold returned to his steel-and-glass international enclave on Manhattan Island last week. He came back from his mission to the Middle East reflecting, with the practiced restraint of a Swedish diplomat, a quiet satisfaction in having stopped the fighting on the Israeli-Egyptian border, but qualifying his guarded optimism for the future with a polite cautionary warning to nations outside the area...
...Minnesota defeat, reporters squeezed into corner waiting for TV to finish shooting his prepared statement. As they started to question Stevenson, the TV crew made so much noise packing to leave that tart-tongued Columnist Doris Fleeson finally cried: "If the second-class citizens could have some quiet, please...
...away your brilliant prospects, wreck your whole career, for a mere whim," he wails. Stephen is adamant: "The only thing that mattered was this creative instinct that burned within him." He Renounces All, including the love of the neighboring squire's daughter, a girl with an "air of quiet composure, a sense of inescapable good breeding," who appreciates "the essential fineness of Stephen's character." He rushes off to Paris, whose air exhilarates him. How? "Like wine...