Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...played attentively. They thundered when the occasion demanded, or played under the chorus's pianissimo, which was very soft, Randall Thompson's orchestrations are more or less routine work for instrumentalists; the strings played what they had well, the wind solos were good, but not always exactly in tune...
...Monday evening, the regular news broadcast was 35 minutes late, and the time was filled with soft music. Then came the announcement: Ben Bella had personally commuted the death sentences of Ait Ahmed and Si Moussa to life imprisonment. Both men will probably be sent deep into the Sahara where they can keep company with former Premier Ferhat Abbas, former Justice Minister Amar Bentoumi, and several former deputies, including Abderrahmane Fares, ex-President of the provisional executive government. In Algeria, the revolution does not devour its children; it merely buries them in the desert...
...Republicans have had in a long time and it is no wonder that Goldwater and Miller, whose political careers began around 1950, fell back on these comfortable issues when their their new, barely disguised appeals to racism failed. Goldwater, it will be remembered, at one point called Lyndon Johnson soft on Communism (he said Nixon suggested it, which isn't very hard to believe). He parried criticism from abroad by claiming that the Europeans were simply afraid that he would cut off American economic aid. Bill Miller fell back on such early-'50's chestnuts as the dangers of letting...
...themselves as completely as the audience did and they played their comic parts to the hilt, storming and shouting around the stage with enormous enthusiasm and exuberance. Amafume Onoge as the prophet Jeroboam delighted the house with abrupt switches from pompous ranting at his flock on stage, to sly soft-voiced asides to the audience explaining his true despicable motives. In the role of Chume, Akin Adewole '66 was as athletic and skilled at fighting with his wife as he was playing line-man for the Crimson soccer team this fall. And Cordelian Mbawuike was completely convincing as his ferocious...
...Gary S. Zukav who saved the show. As Security, the usurer, he got the first laughs of the evening, and continued to get them until the very end. He knew when to walk quickly and when slowly, when to speak loud, when soft. He knew to the millisecond how much time to leave between a matter-of-fact "I'm a cuckold" and a startled "what...