Word: shriekingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hideously difficult, underscores the contrast: it is at its sweetest and most melodic in Act II when the people of Israel prostrate themselves before the Calf, at its harshest when Moses struggles with his hard faith. In the arguments of Moses and Aron, the brasses snarl, the chiseled strings shriek in a web of complicated polyphony. The score is made more difficult by Schoenberg's technique of interlocking choral and solo parts in an almost unintelligible cacophony. The Columbia recording (conducted by Germany's Hans Rosbaud) demonstrates that Composer Schoenberg may have been right when he noted that...
...Treaty of Portsmouth, N.H.; 2) restoration of balance of power; 3) the Nobel Peace Prize for T.R. T.R.'s thought about the Treaty of Portsmouth: "Sometime soon I shall have to spank some little international brigand, and then all the well-meaning idiots will turn and shriek that this is inconsistent with what I did at the peace conference, whereas...
...hand, a gallon jug with two lively brown mice in the other. "If you want to be chicken," said the girl, "go on in." The boy smiled shamefacedly -and went to school. The Central High School class bell rang at 8:45-and at almost that instant a shriek went up: "Here come the niggers...
...right to them just like I would a bank president." As pitchman he is less happy. Too often he is called upon to spray himself with Bactine disinfectant and sing "Down go the mean old germs," take great chunks of Silver Cup Bread (backed by offbeat sound effects) and shriek "The Best Bread in Deeee-troit." When he downs his Vite-A-Minnies, children all over Detroit follow suit. "The mothers love me," says Soupy. He also gets the thanks of the fathers by offering such sound advice as: "When you are in the car with Daddy...
...Antioch Festival in Ohio; it is obvious from his present performance that he has lived with the role a long time and knows exactly what he is doing. Most Othellos make the mistake of getting enraged too soon; consequently as the play progresses they try to bellow and shriek ever more loudly until the limit of intelligibility has been left far behind. But Hyman is careful to adjust to the big time scale of this process, so that the proper prolonged Beethovenian crescendo results. For, contrary to the popular conception, Othello is not by nature disposed toward jealousy...