Word: seamless
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STRAUSS: FOUR LAST SONGS (Angel). On records, at least, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf is still one of the supreme vocal artists of the day. Here she gives a seamless performance, as if all four songs were drawn on one breath. Her performance may not quite measure up to Lisa Delia Casa's classic recording of a decade ago, which is an irresistible blend of youthfulness and melancholy; yet Schwarzkopf sounds as if she had lived the life now ending and better understands the tragic resignation...
...TREADER (Columbia). Ruggles spent six years on his symphony, which had its premiere in Paris in 1932 and in the U.S. only last month. Like his more prolific friend and fellow Yankee, the late Charles Ives, Ruggles writes dissonant but cogent and original music. Sun Treader is a sober, seamless, one-movement tribute to a tragic hero, for thus Browning addressed Shelley eleven years after he was drowned ("Sun-treader, life and light be thine forever!"). Performed by the Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Zoltan Rozsnyai conducting...
...Karl Schulte, 40, a leader among the restless breed of West German entrepreneurs who have cut consumer costs by introducing modern production and merchandising methods. One of the first things he did when he took over his father's struggling knitting mill in 1956 was to begin selling seamless nylon stockings in supermarkets for 750 a pair−half the standard price. Today, every other pair of women's hosiery sold in West Germany is made by his firm, Schulte & Dieckhoff, whose sales have increased twentyfold in the past nine years, to $90 million...
...Paradiso, the most profound and beautiful of the canticles, is a work of radiant religious majesty. Heaven, as Dante conceives it, is a seamless empyrean, a simple blazing thought in which saints and angels mystically merge in the glory of God. Nevertheless, since "thus the human mind must be addressed," Heaven arranges itself for his experience into a hierarchy of nine heavens ascending in series to the Heart of Light. Suddenly "transhumanized," the poet is swiftly borne upward through the heavens as "a falling rill that plunges from a mountain to the depths." Beatrice precedes...
...becoming a "global village," in which mankind communicates in a supermodern version of the way tribal societies were once related. In the coming overthrow of typographic and literate communications McLuhan expresses his grotesque hope that modern man can be put "back into the tribal or oral pattern with its seamless web of kinship and interdependence...