Word: softer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fine scores, expressively terse and textually dense, always pose the initial problem of hearing all that is essential. In the Violin Concerto, this dilemma assumes near-fatal proportions. The solo instrument is integrated into a large Wagnerian orchestra, which it must dominate with music marked mezzo-piano (or softer) seventy-five per cent of the time! Now Berg was no fool; the orchestra's dynamics are determined accordingly. But no orchestra can or will play continually softly, and the HRO proved no exception. The resulting acoustical imbalance seriously challenged the considerable prowess of violinist Charles Castleman...
...letter bore no date-only "Havana, Year of Agriculture."* It was signed by Argentine-born Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, Castro's longtime No. 2 man, who has been missing for seven months after a bitter doctrinal dispute with the dictator; Che preferred a hardline, Peking-style Communism, Castro the softer, Moscow variety (TIME cover, Oct. 8). Two weeks ago, Castro promised a document that would explain Che's absence and his status. Now before 5,000 Cubans in Havana's Chaplin Theater, Castro said that Che gave him the letter last April, asking him to read it publicly...
Wilson won easy and overwhelming approval for his support of the U.S. in Viet Nam, despite the now familiar demands from some left-wing M.P.s for a softer line. He also had little trouble winning support for his government's proposal to limit Commonwealth immigration. A tougher nut, however, was gaining approval of anti-inflation legislation requiring unions to submit wage demands to a government board...
Four in the Fudge. Heavy rain fell all night before the race, and by post time the clay track was the consistency of soft fudge. Unlike flat-racing thoroughbreds, who plant their hoofs, then pick them straight up-and often revel in the softer footing of an "off" track-trotters slide their hoofs slightly forward each time they take a stride; they tend to slip and get mired in the mud. That is exactly what happened to Noble Victory: twice in the three-heat race, he broke stride; in the third heat, the best he could do was third...
...Guatemalan operation would succeed. And, Mr. President, the prospects for this [Cuba] plan are even better than they were for that one." There was a strong suggestion that Kennedy could not afford to back away from a long-prepared anti-Castro project and appear to be soft on Communism-softer than the Republicans had been. If the Cuban exile brigade were disbanded, it was argued, they would fan out all over Latin America, and explain how the U.S. "had lost its nerve" in the fight against Communism. "Having created the brigade as an option," says Schlesinger, "the CIA now presented...