Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Doig calls his writing a "cottage-industry" employment, and the result is what you would expect from a tireless home craftsman. Winter Brothers is well-conceived and well-crafted. Every piece is carefully set in its proper position, the seams lovingly shaved smooth, every link subtly interconnected to the larger piece. The wit is quiet, the words understated and nuanced, homely yet precise and evocative. Intrigued, you may soon want to stay up late with the retiring, lumberjack-shirted fellow thumbing through browned pages in his patient, archivist's enthusiasm, joining him and Swan as another "winter brother...
Tubin's Tenth, written in Stockholm in 1973, rollicks and lilts. It provides a smooth connection between Brahms' parody of German schoolboys' drinking songs and Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, which, its composer wrote, captures the Russian alcoholic soul. Tubin, born in Kallaste, Estonia in 1905, moved to Sweden in 1944, after studying with Kodaly in Budapest and Heino Eller in Tartu. The symphony is in one big movement, and the melodies are folksy, recalling Bartok in rhythm and structure. Syncopation and dotted notes, along with the rolling figures in the strings, give the piece a gypsy personality. Just as enticing...
Smokey Robinson: Warm Thoughts (Tamla/Motown). Smooth as a satin sheet and far more sexy. Smokey's not just the soul master; he's the man who teaches the masters...
...very rapidly, but he is most skilled on the operational side. He is an expediter-in terms of getting staff work organized and of dealing with personalities." Allen demonstrated that skill when he patched up quarrels among bickering members of the transition team. His aim is to create a smooth-functioning foreign policy team in the White House that will be more concerned with real enemies abroad than putative ones at home...
...Role: I see the effective performance of this job as crucial to the smooth functioning of the Reagan Administration's foreign policy, I am determined to work for the President and for the other Cabinet members. I think that we showed during the campaign that teamwork makes the difference...