Word: right
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...need not worry about his new album. Cliburn's natural equipment is just right for Chopin. He has a powerful and precise technique, a gift for tracing long, soaring lines out of detailed figurations, and an innately tasteful musicality that spurns either maudlin moonbeams or brittle bravura. He puts it all to work in the Byronic B-Minor Third Sonata, playing with dash, sweep and refined lyricism. His performance of the Second, in B-flat minor, offers something more. Although not the performance of a mellow master like Rubinstein, it displays a subtle feeling for the shifting, subterranean currents...
...Cliburn is not only a major pianist of the younger generation, but a culture hero as well-right up there with the Beatles and Marshall McLuhan...
Pound wrote WONDERFUL in penciled capitals along the entire first page of A Game of Chess, and Pound was right. Elsewhere, his critical pruning seems to have worked well against the too lush proliferation of Eliot's young genius. Whole passages, in fact, were stricken where Eliot bowed to Pound's radical diagnosis...
With one ferocious swat of his head, Ted sent the balloon up to the ceiling, where it hit against a light and burst. Ted turned to his audience and coolly said, "All right, let's begin." He led the students, about two thirds of whom were girls, out onto the floor of the assembly room, a little larger than a basketball court. He spaced them out, dimmed the lights, and said, "We'll start with breathing exercise...
...budget directly. No grants go into the budget; instead, the faculty receives a percentage of each research grant as payment for overhead costs--such as maintaining the labs and offices for the researchers. So when the research contracts are cut, overhead payments drop correspondingly. The overhead costs, however, keep right on going, and the Faculty begins to lose money on its labs instead of breaking even...