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...somehow a little unyielding. Three Brahms pieces concluded the program: Opus 11 No. 1, and Opus No.119 No.3 and No. 4. Gross played all the music in this last group with great energy, sometimes verging upon ferocity. His conception of this music is in the grand manner, with robust tempos and high-toned fortissimos. If an occasional passage was not executed with perfect technical ease, this did not destroy the total effect, not interrupt the continuity, which seems to be Gross' first concern. It is not surprising that such a spirited and musical pianist should hum as well as Serkin...
Affairs Committee, straight-backed bearing, robust energy, fine Southern manners, and a longstanding reputation for cool, shrewd good sense...
Although Newsweek's "religion in our Colleges" may have been guilty of overstating its case, it is unfortunate that your reviewer has similarly overstated his. He speaks of "a slight increase in church attendance." If he is referring to Memorial Church, he might with safety apply a somewhat more robust adjective than "slight." When he says that "Harvard has not experienced a religious renascence," it can only be assumed that, like those students quoted in Newsweek, he is equating "Harvard" with himself and his associates. ...Although the results of the report made by the Student Council were vague...
Nonetheless, auto manufacturers and dealers last week faced the fact that while 1957 looks like a better year for sales than disappointing 1956. there probably will be no robust spring upsurge as in previous years; instead they see a solid steady rise...
...sense of pity-for his pride is so constituted that he can grovel to attain his ends. It is possibly the first time in fiction that a thoroughly unprepossessing man gets a woman to bed by crying a few well-timed tears. Like many suspense stories of a more robust kind, the book does not bear much thinking about once it is put down, but while the story lasts, the reader is firmly held by the question of whether Emmet Booth will finally win. His pursuit of Miranda has the tried and true fascination of that famous cliche from East...