Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Solid Ground." The object of such honors, perhaps more concentrated than any other composer living or dead has ever received on a single occasion, was a man of whom one Parisian wrote: "Chopin can best be denned as a trinite charmante. His personality, his playing and his compositions were in such harmony that they could no more be separated than can the features of one face...
...composer who discovered his special niche at the keyboard at seven, with his first polonaise, and seldom strayed from it. His family and friends implored him to write operas, symphonies, oratorios. But he called the piano "my solid ground; on that I stand the strongest." His compositions, with their poetry, fire and freshness, never came easily: "Before I have said my last word, I must go through horrible pangs and tribulations, with many tears and sleepless nights...
...pictures in the show included something by almost every first-rank U.S. painter. Edward Hopper had sent along a harshly lit Conference at Night that was rock-solid in composition and rock-bare in theme. It made a notable addition to Hopper's hard comments on the loneliness and scantiness of a lot of city life-paintings that bite deeper than propaganda pictures of the "social-consciousness" school ever could. By contrast, Grandma Moses' glowing, not very "primitive" Out for the Christmas Trees and Louis Bouche's slapdash evocation of the New Lebanon Railroad Station, though just...
...Paramount) is a handsomely mounted, sumptuously acted film about a wallflower whose only social grace is a neat hand at embroidery. Directed and produced by William Wyler (Wuttiering Heights, The Best Years of Our Lives), The Heiress bears the Wyler trademark of painstaking high gloss. It is also a solid and impressive movie aimed at adults...
...citizens of Virginia's Arlington County to get better public education for their children. By glossing over their opposition (real-estate interests, a cynical political machine), the film passes up dramatic conflict. But as a detailed primer on rescuing a down-at-heels school system, it suggests a solid public service and offers inspiring evidence that aroused parents can get results when they take their problems into their own hands...