Word: ragging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back on the podium, he was as loose-jointed as a rag doll as he conducted Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony. The frenzied applause, foot-stamping, cries of "bravo," and rhythmic chants of Mitropoulos continued for a full 20 minutes. Next day, after an unscheduled concert for overflow crowds of the night before, Mitropoulos found that he was not too exhausted for the royal meal, after all. ("The King's expecting me, and I hear he has a good lunch waiting...
...downright dangerous. This can be deduced from the sad experience of Ilya Ehrenburg, who normally leads a full, rich, happy life in the Soviet Union, with a luxurious apartment in Moscow, a dacha in the country, a villa in the south, a talented wife, and a rag-taggle of pedigreed dogs. But in his latest novel, published in Russia last year, Ehrenburg let on that life is a bit of a bore and wondered whether it is worth living at all. Whereupon his fellow workers in literature were ready to tear him to pieces in a comradely way -until...
Sinatra would appear onstage, looking, as one contemporary described him, "like a terrified boy of 15 in the presence of his first major opportunity." He would hang for a moment on the microphone, holding it itchily, as if it were a snake. "His face was like a wet rag." His chest caved in, as if from the weight of the enormous zoot shoulders it bore, and a huge, floppy bow tie hung down like the ears of a spaniel. For a moment he would look among his audience, pleadingly, as if searching for his mother, and then he would begin...
Rain, mud, and wet grass have forced athletes to delay their activities on diamonds, tennis courts, and even on the golf course until the time when their equipment can be dusted off instead of wiped with a wet rag...
...ballads have the only genuine distinction, however. They seemed to linger on after the rattle of the fast numbers had died away. The HDC has also censored itself, with the result that Great to Be Back! now is a family show. Except that one verse of "Mogambo Rag" has been lost, the clean-up served only to boost the entertainment value. Since there has been more cutting than adding, the whole evening is considerably shorter at Peabody this week. It is also much brighter...