Word: sounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little confidence in the ability of the American people to accept international measures that require emotional maturity. "Foreign policy by policy by opinion pool," an invention of the fifties, ignores the tremendous power and prestige a President and his Administration possesses to lead public opinion into accepting sound policy...
...most at their ease in the lively outer movements, where their energy and exuberance made an especially happy effect; the Andante seemed a bit pallid. But in the Allegro and the concluding "La Tempesta" (Haydn's cloudburst is Austrian naivete and gentility compared with Vivaldi's) they produced a sound richer and larger than the orchestra's numbers suggest. An even bigger sound could be heard in the substantial D minor piano concerto of Bach, in which the sonority of the opening unison belied the fact that the forces involved really amounted to an expanded chamber group...
Poems, by Boris Pasternak, translated by Eugene M. Kayden. The delicate fusion of sound and sense is sometimes ob scured in translation, but the greatness of the poet shows through...
...Spanish Civil War, the whole episode has the look of merely trying to keep up with the times. Jefferson, Miss, (really Faulkner's home town of Oxford) sees dramatic changes after World War II, but the comments on housing developments, new cars and the Negro problem sound tacked on, like dutiful after-dinner small talk...
Like other writers struck by early success, Novelist Norman Mailer, 36, is fond of discussing his talent, often in terms that make it sound like a prize begonia. "America is a cruel soil for talent," he writes. "It stunts it, blights it, uproots it, or overheats it with cheap fertilizer." In this book, Author Mailer (The Naked and the Dead) sets aside the arduous business of novel writing and takes up horticulture. His first book in four years is a rock garden of schoolboy short stories, failed poems, fragments of plays, snippings from old novels and lumps from...