Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prodigy Unexploited. Artur Schnabel has been a sakes-man ever since he was a boy prodigy in Austria ("I was never exploited. My parents were very good that way"). He took lessons for only seven years, still hates to practice and seldom does (says he: "I practice in my head"). His teacher, who was,a close friend of Brahms, took him along on several of Brahms's famed walks in the Vienna woods. Schnabel loves to debunk the pressagent story that Brahms discovered him at his first recital, and praised his genius: "I fully expect to read some...
...descendants (TIME, Nov. 3) still produce in quantity, have nothing to do with art as civilization knows it. They are not merely for art's sake, like most modern painting, nor are they done in a spirit of reverence, like early Greek and early Renaissance art; and they seldom vary with the individual artists-who are always medicine men. Navajo sand paintings are pure magic with one main purpose: to help heal the sick...
...very seldom that the direction of a theatrical performance is so very brilliant, so perfect that it shines through the individual characterizations and through the play itself. Such was the case last night at the Colonial, where the skillful hand of Director Peter Ashmore was even more prominent than the oh-so Shavian phrases of G.. B. Shaw and the excellences of the acting. Mr. Ashmore showed himself to be a master of style, to have a fine sense of movement, and to understand completely and sympathetically the temperament of the piece and the period with which...
...basketball coach of the Oklahoma Aggies, is much too sly to be stampeded into using newfangled methods. When he takes his players to the big city, they play horse& -buggy basketball. There is no furious running or frantic shooting. Calmly and deliberately, they throttle the game down ; the Aggies seldom score many points and allow the opposition even fewer. Other coaches call it "slow death...
...hand, aims for sentiment and achieves mawkishness; it reaches out for allegory and it grasps chaos and incongruity. And, to round out the comparison, although it appears to have scarcely any intent of being a fantasy, and certainly has none of the elements characteristic of a good fantasy, it seldom seems to be anything else...