Word: rigid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...periodically shaken by earthquakes, battered by 80-m.p.h. winds; rainfall can total 72 in. in three months, and termites abound. To cope with these problems, Owings designed a kind of concrete saddle over the ridge, anchored by eight caissons reaching down into bedrock. On this he secured a rigid A-frame, surrounded it with cantilevered balconies carried around the outside to exploit the spectacular view. For roof beams he bought 60-year-old redwood timbers of a demolished bridge. A four-car garage was dug partially out of bedrock, leaving a prehistoric Indian mound undisturbed. Says Owings: "No house...
...Flight is also a study in opposites. The young daredevil, or perhaps the your Leonardo, poises on the verge of trying his wings from a cliff top overlooking Pittsburgh's Bigelow Boulevard. He defies authority and rigid conservatism (which say it cannot be done), represented in only two dimensions by the safety poster. His mother, hanging out the clothes, doubtless regards her headstrong son with mixed emotions...
...business and industry. Ward Howell invited suggestions from Leonard Bernstein, Rudolf Bing, Sir Thomas Beecham, et al. With a list of 35 candidates to work from, the firm set up interviews, started vetting applicants on the basis of previous success, experience and age-35 to 50 preferred. The rigid combination of musical and managerial talent proved hard to find: one candidate, a lawyer, was washed out because he was high on executive ability but low on musical experience; an opera-company director knew his music thoroughly but seemed a poor administrator. Several were angling for salaries well above...
...Philharmonic started business in 1860 with a program that included such contemporary crowd rousers as the overtures to Michele Carafa's La Prison d'Edimbourg and Francois Boieldieu's La Dame Blanche. Most of the time since, it has stuck to a rigid amateur policy; only the conductors and guest soloists are pros. Part of the orchestra's success stems from its organization; its governing board is made up of playing members, and each of the orchestra's 95 instrumentalists must survive an annual audition; if any player does not measure up, he loses...
Richards makes this sketch, Bontche Schweig, and the first one, The Tale of Chelm, worthwhile. In making Bontche's request, his one line in the play, he must walk the tightrope between melodrama and pathetic humor, and he does it in perfect balance. The other actors, however, seem too rigid in their parts, as if they were not really communicating with each other; and the directing seems too light, as if it were not forcing the actors to work together. The music of Hovey and de Cornier, and a narrator, help to integrate these two sketches, but the result...