Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff), Armenian folk songs, Schubert and Strauss lieder, operatic arias from Rossini and Mozart, even one English air-Cyril Scott's Lullaby. Noted for a repertory of 500 works by 100 composers, in five different languages, she displayed a solidly centered, richly colored voice of moderate power, smooth as cream in the lower register, clear and unforced in the upper one. She was able to pay out a prodigious breath supply with fluid ease, showed an impressive command of Italian, French and German diction, although her English came through with a yawing, Akim Tamiroff drawl. Zara...
...terms, on the theory that they are the only possible ones in which the subject in question can be considered. This superiority accounts for the scorn with which the naivete of many a Freshman has been greeted, to be transformed soon into a smooth scepticism, or perhaps an even more knowing cynicism...
...Irritation. But behind the Soviet smiles, irritation was rising. The British diplomats and political backroom experts who had urged Macmillan to go to Moscow had done so on the basis of a fatally naive and condescending assumption. Sublimely convinced that no diplomats in the world are as smooth as British diplomats, Macmillan's advisers seriously thought that Khrushchev might somehow be persuaded, three months before a showdown date he himself had set, to take the urgency out of a crisis Khrushchev had deliberately provoked to try the free world's nerve...
...visitors played alert, hustling basketball all the way, braving the combined forces of a smooth, poised Tiger squad and a raucous battallion of Tiger fans, most of them members of Cannon Club, one of the Big Five on Princeton's tree-lined Prospect...
...smooth, literate collation of contem porary photographs, campaign posters, drawings and newspaper cartoons of Honest...