Word: sighings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Work. The rippling second movement gave no clear idea of tonal home base, but it developed a comic effect as it progressed through subtly different rhythms. The third movement, again in pensive tempo, gave the soloist another long melody that breathed nostalgically of twilight among ruins, then let it sigh into a noontime atmosphere with a passage in octaves, then into a recitative of murmurous beauty, where Oistrakh's instrument spoke in unevenly repeated notes. The solo cadenza started with simple triads in different keys, then confronted them with each other in a clashing dissonance, then became more brusque...
...days in Burlington, Vt., Emma had had a mysterious breathing difficulty. For no apparent reason she would take a deep breath and then, as she thought, "stop breathing"; actually, she took shallow breaths on top of what she was holding, finally let all the air out with a giant sigh. Afraid of suffocating, she had spent years going from doctor to doctor, finally quit her work. Last October, a neurologist decided that her trouble was emotional, referred her to Montreal's famed Allan Institute...
Captain of the team will be Harold Fey (rhymes with sigh), 57, a Disciples of Christ minister who joined the Century in 1940, became managing editor in 1947 and executive editor in 1952. "I wish Hutchinson were going to continue, and that's the fact of the matter," he said last week. "All I can say is that I will make a pious resolution to do the best I can, and hope for a special endowment of grace from...
...past, many an undergraduate must have gazed into the darkened interior of Lamont Library at night after 9:45 or on Sundays, and wished fervently that every College administrator would pin these words above his desk and meditate upon them daily. Then the undergraduate would sigh hopelessly and trudge back to his dormitory, often to join in the noise-making that prevented concentrated study. To this student, it must have seemed that the Library existed for the convenience of its staff. His demands for longer Lamont hours were met with the explanation that keeping the Library open would be prohibitive...
This delicious ambiguity, designed to keep the boy in continual tension, is one of the refinements we collegians have added to what was once a pretty straightforward game. Trying to be honest for once, you let escape a blissful sigh. There went that date, daddy-o. "You beast! You're enjoying it!" She recoils like a snake. Remember the rules: you decide what to do, but she decides...