Word: slapdash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from his student days in Prague. He compares Janáček's originality with that of America's Charles Ives. Like Ives, Janacek was a weird, lonely figure who owed little to his musical ancestors and had no true descendants. His method of composing was slapdash and, to would-be performers, sometimes unintelligible. Says Mackerras: "He never really knew his craft. He had an absolutely lackadaisical approach to the details, but a strict and passionate approach to what the music was trying to convey." Susskind suggests a reason for the carelessness: "It's as though...
...decade of assiduously erecting culture structures, not a single sizable talent has emerged from the regional theater. Far from assembling able dedicated ensemble companies, the regional theater has merely spawned a theatrical bureaucracy of so-so actors and so-so directors who are not above displaying a sly slapdash contempt for their so-so audiences. The rank mediocrity of most resident companies has been camouflaged by some New York drama critics, who put down Broadway commercialism and confect gorgeous fictions about the distinguished dramatic art and high esthetic integrity that they have discovered in Nome, Keokuk and the lower Gasp...
...suntan instead of slapdash makeup jobs; no lectern to hide behind. Ailes kept the set simple, the colors manly. Once Chicago set designers tried to use oh-so-chic turquoise curtains as a back drop. "Those stupid bastards," railed Ailes. "Nixon wouldn't have looked right unless he was carrying a pocketbook...
...hasn't. "We have yet to find out what he can't do," says Schmidt, who has rewarded his slapdash star with a threeyear, $250,000 contract, making Orr one of the highest-paid hockey players in history. Bobby-all 5 ft. 11 in., 175 Ibs. of him-justifies his price tag every minute of play. Fearlessly aggressive, he once spotted Detroit's Gordie Howe 30 lbs. and lifted him clear oft the ice. Orr also has, as Teammate Ted Green puts it, "18 speeds of fast," and he is equally effective on offense. Says Toronto Defenseman...
...will be the last of her kind to be built at Upper Clyde. It's maybe just as well." It would be misleading to hold up the new Queen as a reflection of all that ails Britain's economy. But it exposed anew the casual management and slapdash workmanship that has become all too common in a nation anxious to regain the grandeur of the past...