Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Music at M.I.T. (Unicorn). Recorded in M.I.T.'s new Kresge Auditorium (TIME, Dec. 26), records in this series are hard to beat for sheer aural excitement. Roger Voisin and the remarkable brasses of the Boston Symphony add a dimension of rare virtuosity to four modern works in The Modern Age of Brass. Beethoven Piano Sonatas (Op. 109, 110) make the instrument sound iridescent and almost inhumanly-clear, which is as it should be, and Ernest Levy's performance has the ring of truth...
...lightly as a wind-wafted feather in spite of her 46 years. Most critics were ecstatic. The Times critic described her as "now like a flame on the ground, now like a flame leaping in the air." Wrote the News Chronicle: "Her arms and hands raised in flight are sheer poetry." Sadler's Wells' Margot Fonteyn, whom many rate the West's greatest ballerina, was moved to tears of admiration. Said she: "This is magical. Now we know what we've been missing. I cannot even begin to discuss the dancing of Ulanova because...
Toward five o'clock, the team begins to fade. The grunts of sheer animal exertion are modulated into long sighs of fatigue. Duffy whistles the men together. "You were logy," he says quietly. "I don't know why-maybe it's the weather. Now we're going to run you, because that's the only way you'll stay in shape. Let's take some wind sprints...
...Winston's Blenheim prose palace, the six-volume, 2,561-page Marlborough, His Life and Times. John was slim and handsome, brave as a lion, as full of twists as a corkscrew. He was ambitious beyond belief, but never lost his temper or learned to spell. Through sheer brilliance he worked himself up to the rank of general. But it was not until Queen Anne came to the throne that John Churchill had the chance to astonish Europe. And even then, he would never have succeeded without the backing of his amazing wife Sarah...
...strangely enough a schoolteacher with a Greek name) courts the local widow with such niceties as "a stunning blow across the mouth with the back of his hand." And her love scenes are as explicit as love scenes can get without the use of diagrams and tape recorder. By sheer volume, the low animal moans produced "deep in the throat'' by Peyton Place's mating females must be audible clear to White River Junction...