Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...partly by private industry. But this project is vague and undefined, and the government has not thrown its full weight behind it. Nor is there assurance that businessmen will go along; significantly, Wirtschaftsdienst, the influential organ of industry, recently complained that Germany's own internal expansion requires all the spare cash available. But, although Konrad Adenauer would be able to protest that another election is coming up, it looked as if the Germans might be hooked for at least some contribution. Reporting the impending Dillon-Anderson visit, Hamburg's Die Welt commented gloomily: "The Federal Government is disturbed . . . giving...
...diplomat who wrote poetry in secret after his day's work at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris, where he served for years as Secretary-General of the French Foreign Ministry. ''Is this true, Leger, that, as people say, you write poetry in your spare time?" asked Aristide Briand of his faithful assistant. "It is." replied the writer firmly, "an imposture...
...stage poet" mask - green billiard-cloth trousers, pink coat, blue shirt, an immense sombrero, a Mephistophelean red-blond beard and a single turquoise earring. An even better attention-getting device was Personae, published in 1909, in which he first struck the tone of most modern Anglo-American poetry - spare, objective, unornamented, elliptic. Dante, the medieval troubadours, and his pet hate-love Whitman had been his tutors, but he had done the homework of craftsmanship. (In one undergraduate year he had written a sonnet a day.) Though stripped for action, many of Pound's lines still retained the lilt...
...contrast, The Sentence, by Giacomo Manzoni, 28, was a shrill, spare twelve-tone work that made fiendishly difficult demands on the singers and left the orchestra pit littered, in the words of one critic, with "the murdered bodies of the instruments." Set in China in the 1940s during the Japanese occupation, the opera told of a wife who betrays her husband to the enemy, is tried by the village council and dismissed with the existentialist in junction: "We neither condemn nor absolve you. You alone can decide whether you were right or wrong, and your soul throughout eternity will...
...taste, stomp the stage, celebrate the flesh and sneer at the clergy, Tenderloin has a fleering, gamy exuberance. Again, when the stage rocks with the round-dance economics of How the Money Changes Hands, or Ron Husmann rolls out The Picture of Happiness, there is sass and to spare. Jerry Bock's score is better than average, and the Sheldon Harnick lyrics are better than the score...